An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics - Paperbackby Jonathan Kirshner (Author) An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical realism's would be successors and shows how this older, more nuanced and sophisticated method for studying world politics better