Post-Apocalyptic Realism

Structural realism, or neorealism, is a theory of international relations that says power is the most important factor in international relations. First outlined by Kenneth Waltz i...

‘Realism and anti-realism’ is concerned with the debate between scientific realism and its converse, anti-realism or instrumentalism. Realists hold that the aim of science is to pr...

The chapter argues that the search for a single construal of the realism/anti-realism distinction is misguided. There are more or less apt versions of the distinction, each framed ...

This book makes available major texts in the Christian apocalyptic literature from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. The apocalyptic tradition is that of traditional philosoph...

Michele A. Connolly reads the Gospel of Mark through a postcolonial, feminist lens. Post-colonial analysis links the Gospel of Mark, produced in the context of the Roman Empire wi...

This handbook surveys the central theories in comparative and international education (CIE). Each chapter includes an overview of the theory including its history and development, ...

The Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate, two religious groups marked by apocalyptic worldviews, are compared to elucidate two types of trajectories of apocalyptic groups involved in...

This chapter argues that a return to realism of a prudent and sceptical kind can help temper the pathologies that led to the Iraq War, on several fronts. It can counsel governments...