The End of Open Society Realism?

Abstract Does the ‘Zeitenwende’ herald beginning of a new and as yet undefined open society realism? The present essay argues this question requires critical discussion nature value realist political theory, particularly at time where international is accelerating to somewhere which itself unclear. Adding revisionist research on realism in International Relations (IR) theory I sketch how vision call may be developed out Classical realism, sharp distinction academic IR neorealism for methodological reasons. To strip foreign policy from Continental philosophy, law, history risks that we become what liberalism ought avoid: closed with good conscience retreating world politics, hiding behind ‘national’ interest if strategic great power management methodic function structure rather than politics an ethically conscious diplomacy.