Ebook: Realpolitik: a history

Introduction: the return of Realpolitik -- Origins -- Foundations -- Liberalism and Bismarck: a fatal compromise? -- Realpolitik after Rochau -- The English discovery of Realpolitik -- American Realpolitik -- The coming peace and the eradication of Realpolitik -- The ingestion of Realpolitik -- Postwar Germany and the Realpolitik revival -- Realpolitik, Fascism, and appeasement -- Geopolitics and the ethics of American statecraft -- German Émigrés and American Realism -- The Bismarck Debate -- Realpolitik before Détente -- The Kissinger Effect -- From Cold War to New World Order -- Conclusion: a return to foundations.