The National Interest: Hans Morgenthau
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Hans Morgenthau
Hans Joachim Morgenthau was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations. Morgenthau's works belong to the tradition of realism in international relations theory; he is usually considered among the most influential realists of the post-World War II period. Morgenthau made landmark contributions to internation…
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culture · American political scientist (1904–1980) · judge · political scientist · writer · philosopher · university teacher · also Hans Morgenthau, Hans Joachim Morgenthau, Morgenthau
Born 17 February 1904 · Died 19 July 1980 · Q77161
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2001· 1 entry
(from the earlier German edition) was one of the first of many substantial publications about Morgenthau in the 2000s
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1980· 2 entries
Died 1980-07-19.
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Shortly after being admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York with a perforated ulcer
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1979· 1 entry
Morgenthau was one of the passengers on board Swissair Flight 316, which crashed while trying to land at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport
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1977· 2 entries
“[I]n an essentially unstable world, tyranny becomes the last resort of a policy committed to stability in the last resort.”
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Also wrote a brief "Foreword" on the theme of terrorism as it began to emerge in the 1970s
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1975).
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1971· 1 entry
“s first book review, written in 1940, was of Law, the State, and the International Community, by James Brown Scott. Morgenthau also commented on the Pentagon Papers. Like Hannah Arendt, Morgenthau dedicated time and effort to the support of the state of Israel. Both Morgenthau and Arendt made annual trips to Israel to lend their established academic voices to its still young and growing academic community during its inaugural decades as a new nation. Morgenthau”
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1970· 1 entry
Collected his essays from the previous decade dealing with both foreign policy, including Vietnam, and U
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1963· 1 entry
But Bundy made it sound as if Morgenthau was opportunistic and inconsistent
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1961· 1 entry
Had become a consultant to the Kennedy administration
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1960· 1 entry
Morgenthau became increasingly concerned with the revolutionary implications of nuclear weapons and the possibility of nuclear war, which he maintained would be a moral calamity of an unprecedented kind
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1956· 1 entry
Praising President Diem of South Vietnam for creating a "miracle
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1948· 1 entry
Went through five editions during his lifetime and was widely adopted as a textbook in U
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1940· 2 entries
Morgenthau set out a research program for legal functionalism in the article "Positivism, Functionalism, and International Law"
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Was of Law, the State, and the International Community, by James Brown Scott
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1937· 1 entry
After several interim years in Switzerland and Spain
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1933· 1 entry
Morgenthau published a second book in French, La notion du "politique", which was translated into English and published in 2012 as The Concept of the Political
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1932· 1 entry
Studied at Graduate Institute of International Studies (1932).
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1929· 2 entries
As his first book, The International Administration of Justice, Its Essence and Its Limits
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With a thesis entitled International Jurisdiction: Its Nature and Limits, and pursued postdoctoral work at the Geneva Graduate Institute, in Switzerland
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-02-17.
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