Print version: Specter, Matthew G. (Matthew Goodrich), 1968- Atlantic Realists : Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States. First edition. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2022 xiv, 323 pages ISBN 9781503603127
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : the Bildungsroman of empire -- Seeing like a world power : the German-American synthesis -- Realism before "realism" : geopolitics in the interwar Atlantic -- Carl Schmitt’s practice of imperial comparison in the 1930s and 40s -- The making of a realist : Wilhelm Grewe in the Third Reich -- Geopolitics : death and rebirth of an Atlantic tradition during World War II -- An American power politics : Hans Morgenthau and the making of a realist orthodoxy, 1940-1960 -- Realism’s crisis and restoration : West Germany, 1954-85.