POL208Y5 Midterm: POL208 Midterm Reading Notes.docx
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Has been dubbed the pope" of international relations: he is certainly the best known on the classical realist thinkers in the twentieth century, morgenthau is best remembered as one who tried to develop a comprehensive theory of power politics" on the philosophical basis of realist principles of human nature, the essence of politics, the balance of power and the role of ethics in foreign policy, he sought to educate americans in these principles so that the united states could learn how to conducts its foreign policy as an active, great power in the international system. In the 1920"s he studied at the universities of frankfurt and munich, specializing in law and diplomacy: he studied the work of max weber who became both a personal and intellectual role model, he admired weber"s juxtaposition of rigorous detached scholarship with impassioned social and political activism, a combination that he sough to emulate throughout his life.
