Politics Among Nations - Wikipedia Politics Among Nations Politics Among Nations : The Struggle for Power and Peace is a political science book by Hans Morgenthau published in 1948. The book introduces the concept of political realism, presenting a realist view of power politics. This concept played a major role in the foreign policy of the United States, which made it exercise globe - spanning power in the Cold War period. The concept also called for a reconciliation of power politics with the idealistic ethics of earlier American discussions about foreign policy. Quotations `` The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman 's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil. '' `` Realism maintains that universal moral principles can not be applied to the actions of states (... ). The individual may say for himself : `` Let justice be done, even if the world must perish '', but the state has no right to say so in the name of those who are in its care. (... ) While the individual has a moral right to sacrifice himself in defense of such a moral principle, the state has no right to let its moral disapprobation of the infringement of ( that moral principle ) get in the way of successful political action, itself inspired by the moral principle of national survival. '' References Jump up ^ Hans Morgenthau and Kenneth Thompson, Politics Among Nations, 6th edition ( New York : McGraw - Hill, 1985 ), p. 165. Jump up ^ Morgenthau and Thompson, p. 166. Karen Mingst and Jack Snyder. 2004. Essential Readings in World Politics ( 2nd edition ). p. 48 This article about a book on political science is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a book on international relations is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Politics_Among_Nations&oldid=790566525 '' Categories : 1948 books Political science books Books about international relations International relations theory Political realism Political science book stubs International relations book stubs Talk About Wikipedia Français Bahasa Indonesia 日本 語 Edit links This page was last edited on 14 July 2017, at 15 : 55. About Wikipedia

Question: who said politics is the struggle for power
Answer: Hans Morgenthau