Overview
Discusses each of Morgenthau's major writings in its specific political context
Summarises each writing and analyses their context and importance
Demonstrates how and to what extent Morgenthau's ideas changed
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Hans J. Morgenthau
- America
- American foreign policy
- Vietnam War
- Post-war period
- International morality
- Europe
- Realpolitik
- ‘Americanization’ of Morgenthau
- La Notion du ‘Politique’
- Politics Among Nations
- Nazism
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Kenneth Thompson
- Carl Schmidt
- E. H. Carr
- Scientific Man vs Power Politics
- The New Science of Politics
- émigré scholarship
- Six Principles of Political Realism
About this book
This edited volume covers the development of the thought of the political realist Hans J. Morgenthau from the time of his arrival in America from Nazi-dominated Europe through to his emphatic denunciation of American policy in the Vietnam War. Critical to the development of thinking about American foreign policy in the post-war period, he laid out the idea of a national interest defined in terms of power, the precarious uncertainty of the international balance of power, the weakness of international morality, the decentralized character of international law, the deceptiveness of ideologies, and the requirements of a peace-preserving diplomacy. This volume is required reading for students of American foreign policy, and for anyone who wishes to understand the single most important source of the ideas underpinning American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Cornelia Navari, formerly of the University of Birmingham, is Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK. She has written Internationalism and the State in the 20th Century and Public Intellectuals and International Affairs and edited Theorising International Society, Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs and with Daniel Green, Guide to the English School of International Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hans J. Morgenthau and the American Experience
Editors: Cornelia Navari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67498-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67497-1Published: 11 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88439-4Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67498-8Published: 24 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 175
Topics: Comparative Politics, US Politics