Research
Monographs
Hans Kelsen’s Political Realism (2021)
Challenges conventional views of Hans Kelsen and foreign-policy realism in International Relations theory.
— Spanish edition: El realismo político de Hans Kelsen (Bogotá: Unijus, 2025)
“A totally unexpected Kelsen – Biographical. Philosophical. A light on our times.”
George Soros, Founder, Open Society Foundations, New York
Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations (2010)
Provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist international-political theory.
“This book makes an important contribution to the burgeoning literature that is currently re-examining the essential characteristics of political realism.”
Richard Little, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol
Edited Books
The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism (2018)
The first reference work to explore the 2000-year history of political realism and reassess its place in today’s world.
Contributors include Erica Benner, Samir Puri, John Bew, David Martin Jones, Lindsay Cohn, William Scheuerman, Neville Morley, Stuart Gray, Ayelet Haimson-Lushkov, Miles Hollingworth, Tim Spiekerman, Kody Cooper, Grace Roosevelt, Paul Kirkland, Robert Howse, Kenneth McIntyre, David Mayers, Douglas Klusmeyer, Joshua Cherniss, John Mueller, Uriel Abulof, Masa Okuyama, Peter Iver Kaufman, Cecelia Lynch, Tom Switzer, Richard Forno, Alex Wilner, Todd Breyfogle
The Concept of the State in International Relations: Philosophy, Sovereignty, and Cosmopolitanism (2015)
A critical reassessment of the concepts of the state and sovereignty in international relations theory.
“This superb collection ranges across historical, theoretical, and empirical land-scapes, providing challenging and incisive insights into key issues of our time. A first rate-book.”
Michael C. Williams, Professor, University of Ottawa
Journal Articles
Robert Schuett. “Defending Democracy: Hans Kelsen and Intelligence in International Society.” Cosmos+Taxis: Studies in Emergent Orders and Organization 13, no. 7/8 (2025):43-55.
Robert Schuett. “Geopolitik und organisierte Kriminalität: Grenzüberschreitende OK als (harter) geopolitischer Akteur.” SIAK-Journal: Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis 21, no. 2 (2024):4-18.
Robert Schuett and John C. Williams. “Intelligence in International Society: An English School Perspective on the Five Eyes.” Global Policy 15, no. 2 (2024):223-233.
Robert Schuett. “Speaking Truth to Power: Kelsen, Freud, and Peace through Law.” Theory and Critics of Social Regulations 27, no. 2 (2023): 27-44.
Robert Schuett. “Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Reappearing Act.” Austrian Journal of Political Science 53, no. 3 (2022): 2-10.
Robert Schuett. “The End of Open Society Realism?” Analyse & Kritik: Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory 44, no. 2 (2022): 219-242.
Robert Schuett. “Peace through Transformation: Political Realism and the Progressivism of National Security.” International Relations 25, no. 2 (2011): 185-203.
Robert Schuett. “Classical Realism, Freud and Human Nature in International Relations.” History of the Human Sciences 23, no. 2 (2010): 21-46.
Robert Schuett. “Freudian Roots of Political Realism: the Importance of Sigmund Freud to Hans J. Morgenthau’s Theory of International Power Politics.” History of the Human Sciences 20, no. 4 (2007): 53-78.
Book Chapters
Robert Schütt. “Die Machtverteilung und Machtbeziehungen zwischen den Weltmächten.” In Ethos der Macht, edited by Johann Frank and Johannes Berchtold, 593-638. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Hans Kelsen: A Political Realist?” In The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, edited by Robert Schuett and Miles Hollingworth, 303-316. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Robert Schuett. “Introduction: Political Realism, Liberal Democracy and World Politics.” In The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, edited by Robert Schuett and Miles Hollingworth, 1-8. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Robert Schuett. “Open Societies, Cosmopolitanism and the Kelsenian State as a Safeguard against Nationalism.” In The Concept of the State in International Relations: Philosophy, Sovereignty, Cosmopolitanism, edited by Robert Schuett and Peter M.R. Stirk, 221-243. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
Book Reviews
Robert Schuett. Review of Democracy despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy, by Benjamin A. Schupmann. Austrian Journal of Political Science 53, no. 2 (2024).
Robert Schuett. Review of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West, by Calder Walton. Austrian Journal of Political Science 53, no. 1 (2024).
Robert Schuett. Review of Making Democratic Theory Democratic: Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen, by Stephen Turner and George Mazur. Austrian Journal of Political Science 52, no. 4 (2023).
Robert Schuett. Review of Open Society Unresolved: The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea, by Christof Royer and Liviu Matei. Austrian Journal of Political Science 52, no. 4 (2023).
Robert Schuett. Review of George Soros: A Life in Full, by Peter L.W. Osnos. Austrian Journal of Political Science 52, no. 2 (2023).
Robert Schuett. Review of Hans J. Morgenthau und die Twenty Years’ Crisis: Das realistische Denken eines Emigranten im Lichte seines deutschen Erfahrungshintergrundes, by Alexander Reichwein. Austrian Journal of Political Science 51, no. 2 (2022).
Robert Schuett. Review of Democracy in its Essence: Hans Kelsen as a Political Thinker, by Sara Lagi. Austrian Journal of Political Science 50, no. 2 (2021).
Robert Schuett. Review of Hans Kelsen: Biographie eines Rechtswissenschaftlers, by Thomas Olechowski. Austrian Journal of Political Science 49, no. 3 (2020).
Robert Schuett. “Chasing Morgenthau, or: What is Political Realism?” Review of Hans J. Morgenthau’s Theory of International Relations: Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment, by Mihaela Neacsu, and Morgenthau, Law and Realism, by Oliver Jütersonke. International Studies Review 14, no. 1 (2012): 131-151.
Reviewer
I have served as reviewer for Analyse & Kritik: Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Austrian Journal of Political Science, Global Policy, History of European Ideas, International Politics, International Relations, International Studies Review, International Theory, Journal of Austrian-American History, Journal of International Political Theory, Jus Cogens: A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics, Review of International Studies, Routledge Books, University of Michigan Press.