TY - BOOK AU - R Harrison Wagner AU - R Harrison Wagner TI - War and the state : : the theory of international politics SN - 9780472069811 U1 - 327.101 WAG PY - 2007/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - : University of Michigan Press KW - Social Sciences KW - International relations--Philosophy N1 - The theory of international politics -- Reason of state -- Violence, organization, and war -- Bargaining and war -- Enforcing agreements -- A world of commonwealths N2 - Dismantles the fundamental workings of Realism and exposes its intrinsic flaws. This book demonstrates that any understanding of international politics must be part of the more general study of the relationship between political order and organized violence - as it was in the intellectual tradition from which modern-day Realism was derived. ER -