Morgenthau

Author : Andrew Meier
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812981049

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Morgenthau by Andrew Meier Pdf

A “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • A New Yorker Book of the Year “Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and a welcome reminder that even the most noxious evils can be vanquished when capable and committed citizens do their best.”—David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from Fear After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America’s criminal justice system. With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist and biographer Andrew Meier vividly chronicles how the Morgenthaus amassed a fortune in Manhattan real estate, advised presidents, advanced the New Deal, exposed the Armenian genocide, rescued victims of the Holocaust, waged war in the Mediterranean and Pacific, and, from a foundation of private wealth, built a dynasty of public service. In the words of former mayor Ed Koch, they were “the closest we’ve got to royalty in New York City.” Lazarus Morgenthau arrived in America dreaming of rebuilding the fortune he had lost in his homeland. He ultimately died destitute, but the family would rise again with the ascendance of Henry, who became a wealthy and powerful real estate baron. From there, the Morgenthaus went on to influence the most consequential presidency of the twentieth century, as Henry’s son Henry Jr. became FDR’s longest-serving aide, his Treasury secretary during the war, and his confidant of thirty years. Finally, there was Robert Morgenthau, a decorated World War II hero who would become the longest-tenured district attorney in the history of New York City. Known as the “DA for life,” he oversaw the most consequential and controversial prosecutions in New York of the last fifty years, from the war on the Mafia to the infamous Central Park Jogger case. The saga of the Morgenthaus has lain half hidden in the shadows for too long. At heart a family history, Morgenthau is also an American epic, as sprawling and surprising as the country itself.

Author : Hans Joachim Morgenthau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : International relations
ISBN : OCLC:1349254466

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Politics Among Nations by Hans Joachim Morgenthau Pdf

Author : Hans J. Morgenthau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137002518

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The Concept of the Political by Hans J. Morgenthau Pdf

A growing interest in the oeuvre of Hans J. Morgenthau and in re-readings of 'classical realism' increases the significance of his European, pre-emigration writings in order to understand the work of one of the founding figures of IR. This book is the first English translation of Morgenthau's French monograph La notion du politique from 1933 (translated by Maeva Vidal).

Author : Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351352697

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Politics Among Nations by Ramon Pacheco Pardo Pdf

Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills. The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes and supports its conclusions – often around a central concept or scheme of argumentation. Morgenthau’s subject was international relations – the way in which the world’s nations interact, and come into conflict or peace – a topic which was of vital importance during the unstable wake of the Second World War. To the complex problem of understanding the ways in which the post-war nations were jostling for power, Morgenthau brought a comprehensive schema: the concept of “realism” – or, in other words, the idea that every nation will act so as to maximise its own interests. From this basis, Morgenthau builds a systematic argument for a pragmatic approach to international relations in which nations seeking consensus should aim for a balance of power, grounding relations between states in understandings of how the interests of individual nations can be maximized. Though seismic shifts in international politics after the Cold War undeniably altered the landscape of international relations, Morgenthau’s dispassionate reasoning about the nature of our world remains influential to this day.

Author : Hans Joachim Morgenthau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:251394363

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In Defense of the National Interest by Hans Joachim Morgenthau Pdf

Author : M. Neacsu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230245761

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Hans J. Morgenthau's Theory of International Relations by M. Neacsu Pdf

This book provides an innovative interpretation of Hans J. Morgenthau's contribution to international relations, and argues that the concepts of meaning, power as meaning imposition, disenchantment and re-enchantment are central to Morgenthau's theory.

Author : Cornelia Navari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319674988

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Hans J. Morgenthau and the American Experience by Cornelia Navari Pdf

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.

Author : Kenneth Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000680379

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Truth and Tragedy by Kenneth Thompson Pdf

Featuring a new fifty-page interview with Hans J. Morgenthau by Bernard Johnson, this volume on the renowed scholar and philosopher demonstrates how pervasive is his mark on the study of international relations and political philosophy. The interview illuminates Morgenthau's intellectual development in Europe between the world wars and in the United States. It is in recognition of his unsurpassed contribution to the field of international relations and political philosophy that this collection of contributions from distinguished scholars has been assembled. The continuation and refinement of his work in this book prove the lasting value of his philosophical truths in the understanding of human nature, the role of power at all levels of society, and his concept of national interest.

Author : Oliver Jütersonke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139491303

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Morgenthau, Law and Realism by Oliver Jütersonke Pdf

Although he is 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 commentator on international affairs. 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 American 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.

Author : Christoph Frei
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807126586

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Hans J. Morgenthau by Christoph Frei Pdf

Hans J. Morgenthau, a founding proponent of political realism, remains the central figure in international relations scholarship of the twentieth century. His book Politics among Nations literally defined the field in 1948 as it heralded the post--World War II paradigm shift in American thinking about diplomacy. Yet when Morgenthau died in 1980 at the age of seventy-six, no one present at his funeral had an inkling about the first half of his life -- his education, his early productive career in Europe and America, or the roots of his political philosophy. In the first and only volume devoted to the intellectual formation of Morgenthau, Christoph Frei draws upon an overwhelming abundance of resources -- including a lengthy paper trail of previously unseen diaries, correspondence, notes, and manuscripts -- to disclose the compelling story of a great mind in the making. Frei identifies the bases of Morgenthau's ideas and clarifies many misconceptions, including Morgenthau's link with Augustinian thought, his relationship with Reinhold Niebuhr, and the impact of major thinkers such as Max Weber, Hans Kelsen, and Carl Schmitt on the scholar. He offers incontrovertible evidence of Friedrich Nietzsche's predominant influence on Morgenthau. Resoundingly praised in the original German, Hans J. Morgenthau is a brilliant life study that presents the first coherent picture of the European intellectual building blocks Morgenthau brought with him to America.

Author : M. Benjamin Mollov
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739103741

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Power and Transcendence by M. Benjamin Mollov Pdf

Although Morgenthau, primarily known for his works on international relations such as Politics Among Nations (1948) and In Defense of the National Interest (1951), has been seen as a one-dimensional advocate of pure Realpolitik, Mollov (political science, Bar-Ilan U., Israel) argues that themes of transcendence are very important to his work and seeks to explore those aspects of his political thought that have been influenced by his background as a German Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany. After identifying the Jewish aspect of Morgenthau's work, Mollov uses these elements to attempt to define a Jewish approach to international politics, presumably of primary relevance for the state of Israel. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319410128

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Realism and Fear in International Relations by Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou Pdf

This book examines the fascinating story of how the chief architects of realism (Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer) dealt with some of the most pressing political issues of our time through the lenses of fear. Pashakhanlou conducts the most comprehensive evaluation of their works to date, compromising of a meticulous analysis of 400 of their publications. As such, this book is an invaluable resource for practitioners, students and concerned citizens that seek to understand how three of the most influential International Relations scholars thought about the implications of fear at the global level. ‘In this important book, the author gets to the heart of the underlying emotional condition on which so much rational political thought in International Relations is built. By uncovering the role of fear within the modern classics of realism, the book sheds light on the role that fear plays in producing otherwise rational decision-making.’ David Galbreath, Professor of International Security, University of Bath, UK ‘The role played by fear in Realist international theory is under-explored and poorly theorised. This book addresses this lacuna and provides a thorough and systematic analysis of the significance of fear in Realism. In doing so, Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou makes a major contribution to International Relations theory, and the ‘emotional turn’ in the study of contemporary international politics’. Adrian Hyde-Price, Professor of International Politics, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Author : Henry Morgenthau
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547246411

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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Hans Joachim Morgenthau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002641325

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Truth and Power by Hans Joachim Morgenthau Pdf

Author : Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521534852

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The Tragic Vision of Politics by Richard Ned Lebow Pdf

Is it possible to preserve national security through ethical policies? Richard Ned Lebow seeks to show that ethics are actually essential to the national interest. Recapturing the wisdom of classical realism through a close reading of the texts of Thucydides, Clausewitz and Hans Morgenthau, Lebow argues that, unlike many modern realists, classic realists saw close links between domestic and international politics, and between interests and ethics. Lebow uses this analysis to offer a powerful critique of post-Cold War American foreign policy. He also develops an ontological foundation for ethics and makes the case for an alternate ontology for social science based on Greek tragedy s understanding of life and politics. This is a topical and accessible book, written by a leading scholar in the field.