Robert Schuett - The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism

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Uriel Abulof is a Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) at Tel-Aviv Universitys School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, where he directs the graduate studies programme. He is also a research fellow at Princeton Universitys LISD/Woodrow Wilson School and at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Abulof studies the politics of fear and legitimation, social movements, existentialism, nationalism and ethnic conflicts. His recent books include The Mortality and Morality of Nations (2015) and Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (2015); the latter received Israels best academic book award (Bahat Prize). He is also the co-editor of Self-Determination: A Double-Edged Concept (2016) and Communication, Legitimation and Morality in Modern Politics (2017). He is the recipient of the 2016 Young Scholar Award in Israel Studies and is currently working on another book for Cambridge University Press on Political Existentialism and Humanitys Midlife Crisis. His articles have appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Political Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Ethnic and Racial Studies and International Politics.

Christopher Adair-Toteff has published extensively on German philosophy and especially on classical German sociology. He is author of Max Webers Sociology of Religion (2016), Fundamental Concepts in Max Webers Sociology of Religion (2015) and Sociological Beginnings (2005). He is editor of The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch (2017) and The Anthem Companion to Toennies (2016), and is co-editor with Stephen Turner of a book on Edward Shils, due to appear in 2019. Adair-Toteff is completing a book on Raymond Arons political philosophy, scheduled to be published in 2019. He has published numerous articles on Toennies, Troeltsch, Simmel and especially Max Weber. His articles on Weber have been published in such journals as Max Weber Studies, Journal of Classical Sociology, History of the Human Sciences, Archives Europennes de Sociologie, Revue Internationale de Philosophie and sterreichische Zeitschrift fr Geschichtswissenschaften. His Max Webers Charisma (Journal of Classical Sociology) has been cited more than 100 times. He is the author of numerous entries in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2017), The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001) and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998). He has published on Carl Schmitt and is English Language Editor of Carl Schmitt-Studien. He was Honorary Senior Researcher, University of Kent, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida, since 1993. He has taught in the US and Europe, and is currently teaching at Zeppelin Universitt in Germany.

Erica Benner is the author of Really Existing Nationalisms (1995 and 2018), Machiavellis Ethics (2009), Machiavellis Prince: A New Reading (2013) and Be Like the Fox: Machiavellis Lifelong Quest for Freedom (2017). She has written widely on the ethics and intellectual origins of nationalism and on Machiavelli. She received her D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1993 and taught for many years at Oxford and the London School of Economics, before becoming Fellow in Political Philosophy at Yale.

John Bew is Professor in History and Foreign Policy in the War Studies Department at Kings College London. In 2015, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Politics and International Studies, and in 201314, he held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy at the John W. Kluge Center at the US Library of Congress. He is the author of five books, including Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain (2017), which won the 2017 Orwell Prize and Elizabeth Longford Prize, and Realpolitik: A History (2016), a Times book of the year in 2017. He has also served as Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee.

Todd Breyfogle is Director of Seminars for the Aspen Institute, overseeing and moderating humanities-based executive leadership seminars in the US and Europe, including the flagship Aspen Executive Seminar on leadership, values and the good society. Breyfogle has published and lectured widely on the great books, political philosophy, theology, literature, music and liberal education. He is the editor of Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern (1999) and co-editor of Philosophy, Politics, and the Conversation of Mankind (2016). His latest book is On Creativity, Liberty, Love and the Beauty of the Law (2017). Before joining the Aspen Institute, Breyfogle directed the Honors Program at the University of Denver, taught as a visiting professor at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Tulsa, and was a fellow at the Liberty Fund. He has received research and curriculum grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) and the Templeton Foundation, and is editor emeritus of the quarterly journal The American Oxonian. He has lectured at universities or institutes in the US, Europe and India. He chairs the board of the American Academy for Liberal Education, serves on the board of the Alliance for Liberal Learning and is a Senator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Breyfogle studied at Colorado College, attended Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar) and earned his PhD at the University of Chicagos Committee on Social Thought (as a Century Fellow and Javitz Fellow).

Joshua Cherniss is an Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He previously taught at Harvard University and Smith College, and has been a graduate fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard, and visiting faculty fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton. He is the author of A Mind and its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlins Political Thought