Synopses & Reviews
Although International Relations is a relatively young discipline, there is an increasing interest in its own intellectual and academic development. The growing discomfort with positivistic science and the increasing complexity of multipolar world politics have led to a reconsideration of classical scholars in International Relations. This volume explores the intellectual development of International Relations as a discipline, analysing the influence of European émigré scholars on the foundation of American International Relations.Contextualising the thought of scholars including Hans J. Morgenthau, Waldemar Gurian, Hans Kelsen, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Franz L. Neumann, and John H. Herz, the international contributors to this volume consider the emigration, personal experiences, and intellectual backgrounds of these founding thinkers, who have so far received little attention in Anglophone International Relations. The collection argues that European émigré scholars were of significance for the establishment of the discipline, even though the different ontological and epistemological traditions in Continental Europe and the United States led to their academic marginalization.
This volume makes a unique contribution to the history and sociology of political science and International Relations and provides the first coherent discussion of the influence of European émigré scholars as well as their thinking on the crisis of modernity, and in doing so offers important insights into current political theorizing and policy-making.
Synopsis
This is the first Anglophone volume on emigre scholars' influence on International Relations, uniquely exploring the intellectual development of IR as a discipline and providing a re-reading of some of its almost forgotten founding thinkers."
About the Author
Felix Rösch is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University, UK.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Wither the Silence: European Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of an American Discipline; Felix Rösch
PART I: ÉMIGRÉ SCHOLARS AND THE PROBLEM OF TRANSLATING KNOWLEDGE
2. People on the Move - Ideas on the Move: Academic Cultures and the Problematic of Translatability; Hartmut Behr and Xander Kirke
3. Translating Max Weber: Exile Attempts to Forge a New Political Science; Peter Breiner
PART II: ÉMIGRÉ SCHOLARS AND THE GENESIS OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
4. International Law, Émigrés and the Foundation of International Relations; Peter M R Stirk
5. 'Professor Kelsen's Amazing Disappearing Act'; William E. Scheuerman
6. 'Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?' The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann; David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland
7. From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers; Rainer Eisfeld
8. Totalitarian Ideology and Power Conflicts - Waldemar Gurian as International Relations Analyst after the Second World War; Ellen Thümmler
9. "Foreign Policy in the Making" - Carl J. Friedrich's Realism in the Shadow of Weimar Politics; Paul Petzschmann
10. Simone Weil: An Introduction; Helen M. Kinsella
PART III: ÉMIGRÉ SCHOLARS AND THEIR HISTORIC-SEMIOTIC NETWORKS IN THE UNITED STATES
11. From International Law to International Relations. Émigré Scholars in American Political Science and International Relations; Alfons Söllner
12. German Jews and American Realism; Richard Ned Lebow