Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations : The Resurrection of the Realist Man (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought)

This book provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist international-political theory. Developing a Freudian philosophical anthropology for political realism, he argues for the careful resurrection of the concept of human nature in the wider study of international relations.