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Michael C Williams

Publications

Books

World of the Right

The book is out! World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World.

August 30, 2024
Security Beyond the State

Investigates the implications of the globalization of private security for politics, security, and international relations.

November 18, 2010
Realism Reconsidered

Realism remains the most important and controversial vision of international politics. But what does it mean to be a realist?

January 6, 2008
Culture and Security

Culture and Security will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of international relations, security studies and European politics.

May 1, 2007
The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations

An important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance for contemporary international relations.

January 6, 2005

Articles

Radical Right Dystopias in the Global Culture Wars

Global Studies Quarterly 5(1) 2025

January 20, 2025
The New Right, Critical Theory and International Relations

Journal of International Political Theory 18(1) 2022: 23-45.

May 28, 2022
The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought

My article “The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought” was selected by the Editors of the Review of International Studies as one of the noteworthy articles of 2021.

March 16, 2021
Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right

International Political Sociology 14(1) 2020: 94-107.

February 11, 2020

Special Issues

The Darkness at the End of History

Michael C Williams in Polity, volume 54, number 4, October 2022.

November 23, 2022
Aesthetic Realism

In Vassilios Paipais, ed., The Civil Condition in World Politics, University of Bristol Press 2022).

December 3, 2019
Interlocuting classical realism and critical theory

Journal of International Political Theory, 13(1) 2017.

January 13, 2017

Book Chapters

Classical Realism

In Tim Dunne, et.al, eds., International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 6th edition (Oxford University Press, 2024).

June 25, 2024
Historical Realism

In Mlada Bukovansky, et.al, eds., Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2023)

August 1, 2023
Writing the Right: Radical Conservative Narratives of Globalization

In Daniel Deudney, John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay, eds., Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order (Oxford University Press, 2023)

July 1, 2023
Conservatism, Civiility, and the Challenges of International Political Theory

In Vassilios Paipais, ed., The Civil Condition in World Politics, University of Bristol Press 2022).

December 3, 2022

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