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Why Ideas Matter in International Relations: Hans Morgenthau, Classical Realism, and the Moral Construction of Power Politics
Ist Teil von
International organization, 2004-10, Vol.58 (4), p.633-665
Ort / Verlag
New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
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Debates over how ideas matter in international relations have come to
occupy a key place in the field. Through a reexamination of the
thinking of Hans Morgenthau, this article seeks to recover a tradition
of classical realism that stressed the role of ideas in both the
construction of action and in political and ethical judgment. Locating
Morgenthau's understanding of politics against the background of
the oppositional “concept of the political” developed by
the controversial jurist Carl Schmitt shows how Morgenthau's
realism attempts to recognize the centrality of power in politics
without reducing politics to violence, and to preserve an open and
critical sphere of public political debate. This understanding of
Morgenthau's realism challenges many portrayals of his place in
the evolution of international relations, and of the foundations of
realist thought. However, it is also of direct relevance to current
analyses of collective identity formation, linking to—and yet
providing fundamental challenges for—both realist and constructivist
theories.For helpful and insightful comments
on this article in its wide variety of previous incarnations, I would like
to thank Michael Barnett, James Der Derian, Randall Germain, Alexandra
Gheciu, Stefano Guzzini, Jef Huysmans, Oliver Jutersönke, Jennifer
Mitzen, Vibeke Schou Pedersen, and especially Rita Abrahamsen and Richard
Wyn Jones. Previous drafts were presented at the 2002 meetings of the
British International Studies Association, and at the Department of
Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom. My thanks also to the participants at those
sessions.