Download or read book Roots of Realism written by Benjamin Frankel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political realism sees politics as a permanent struggle for power and security. The essays in this volume examine the tradition of realist political analysis of international relations from the Sophists and Thucydides to the modern era.