Nicolas Guilhot is research professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris and visiting scholar at New York University. His work sits at the intersection of political theory, the history of political thought and international relations. His publications include The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order (2005) and The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory (2011).
Introduction; 1. The realist gambit - or the end of political science; 2.
American katechon: Christian realism and the theological foundations of
international relations theory; 3. The making of the realist tradition:
Felix Gilbert and the reclaiming of Machiavelli; 4. The Kuhning of reason:
political realism and decision-making after Thomas Kuhn; 5. Cyborg
pantocrator: at the origins of neorealism; 6. The Americanization of
realism: Kenneth Waltz, the security dilemma and the problem of
decision-making.
