Morgenthau, law, and realism
By: Oliver Jütersonke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780521769280
Description: "Although widely regarded as the 'founding father' of realism in International Relations, this book argues that Hans J. Morgenthau's legal background has largely been neglected in discussions of his place in the 'canon' of IR theory. Morgenthau was a legal scholar of German-Jewish origins who arrived in the United States in 1938. He went on to become a distinguished professor of Political Science and a prominent public intellectual. Rather than locate Morgenthau's intellectual heritage in the German tradition of Realpolitik, this book demonstrates how many of his central ideas and concepts stem from European and US legal debates of the 1920s and 1930s. This is an ambitious attempt to recast the debate on Morgenthau and will appeal to IR scholars interested in the history of realism as well as international lawyers engaged in debates regarding the relationship between law and politics, and the history of international law"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Hans J. Morgenthau in international relations; 2. The justiciability of disputes; 3. Hans Kelsen and the reality of norms; 4. Legal realism and behaviouralist social science; 5. Legalism, romanticism, and irresponsible statecraft; 6. The legacy of legal formalism.