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Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations.
Jul 15, 2024 · Hans Morgenthau (born February 17, 1904, Coburg, Germany—died July 19, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American political scientist and historian noted as a leading analyst of the role of power in international politics.
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Jul 26, 2010 · Hans J. Morgenthau (1904–1980) developed realism into a comprehensive international relations theory. Influenced by the Protestant theologian and political writer Reinhold Niebuhr, as well as by Hobbes, he places selfishness and power-lust at the center of his picture of human existence.
Oct 1, 2004 · Through a reexamination of the thinking of Hans Morgenthau, this article seeks to recover a tradition of classical realism that stressed the role of ideas in both the construction of action and in political and ethical judgment.
- Michael Charles Williams
- 2004
Today, in a time in which a single superpower wages a War on Terror against a largely unidentifiable enemy, the gap between normative (US) foreign policy and International Relations theory is seen by many to be wider than ever before.
- Oliver Jütersonke
- 2010
As this book seeks to demonstrate, the German and US legal theoret ical debates out of which emerged the ‘realist theory of inter-national politics’, based on ‘interest defined in terms of power’, are the missing context in the case of Morgenthau.
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Abstract Debates over how ideas matter in international relations have come to occupy a key place in the field. Through a reexamination of the thinking of Hans Morgenthau, this article seeks to recover a tradition of classical realism that stressed the role of ideas in both the construction of action and in political and ethical judg-ment.