Cover -- History and International Relations -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The historical problem in international relations -- 3. History, contingency, and the roots o f realism : Reinhold Niebuhr and E. H . Carr -- 4. History, analogy, and policy realism : Hans J . Morgenthau and George F. Kennan -- 5. The poverty of ahistoricism : Kenneth N . Waltz and neorealist theory -- 6. "The importance of being scientific" : J . David Singer and the Correlates of War -- 7. Exit from history? Postmodern in ternational relations -- 8. Conclusion: history, skepticism , and the recovery of theory -- Notes -- References -- Index.