“…9 There, Spengler appropriated Nietzsche's Birth of 7 Nietzsche's remarks on politics and IRs are scattered in fragments and aphorisms across a huge corpus, published and unpublished, but see especially 1996 [1878][1879][1880] (161-178) and 2002 [1886], (131)(132)(133)(134)(135)(136)(137)(138)(139)(140)(141)(142)(143)(144)(145)(146)(147)(148)(149)(150). Engagements in IR that overlap with some of the themes include Elbe (2003), Drolet (2014), and Beiner (2018).…”