Confessions of a Recovering Realist: Toward a Neo-Liberal Theory of International Relations

Realist theory has dominated the study of international relations for more than half a century. In this provocative book, Lee Ryan Miller demonstrates that each of the fundamental assumptions of realism is seriously flawed. Then he pulls together the strands of a number of phenomena that cannot be explained by realism – the development of the European Union, the phenomenon of "democratic peace," and the economic success of democratic states – to develop a liberal theory of international relations.