Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations : A European Discipline in America?

This is the first Anglophone volume on émigré 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. 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 Emigre 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 Emigre 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 Emigre 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 (site de l'éditeur) Cover 1 Series 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Notes on Contributors 10 1 Introduction: Breaking the Silence: European Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of an American Discipline 14 Part I: Émigré Scholars and the Problem ofTranslating Knowledge 32 2 People on the Move – Ideas on the Move: Academic Cultures and the Problematic of Translatability 33 3 Translating Max Weber: Exile Attempts to Forge a New Political Science 52 Part II: Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of American International Relations 71 4 International Law, Émigrés, and the Foundation of International Relations 72 5 “Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Disappearing Act” 92 6 “Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?” The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann 114 7 From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers 124 8 Totalitarian Ideology and Power Conflicts – Waldemar Gurian as International Relations Analyst after the Second World War 143 9 “Foreign Policy in the Making” – Carl J. Friedrich’s Realism in the Shadow of Weimar Politics 165 10 Simone Weil: An Introduction 187 Part III: Émigré Scholars and their Historic–Semiotic Networks in the United States -1 11 From International Law to International Relations: Émigré Scholars in American Political Science and International Relations 206 12 German Jews and American Realism 221 Index 253 Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 People on the Move — Ideas on the Move: Academic Cultures and the Problematic of Translatability....Pages 21-39 Translating Max Weber: Exile Attempts to Forge a New Political Science....Pages 40-58 Front Matter....Pages 59-59 International Law, Émigrés, and the Foundation of International Relations....Pages 61-80 “Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Disappearing Act”....Pages 81-102 “Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?” The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann....Pages 103-112 From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers....Pages 113-131 Totalitarian Ideology and Power Conflicts — Waldemar Gurian as International Relations Analyst after the Second World War....Pages 132-153 “Foreign Policy in the Making” — Carl J. Friedrich’s Realism in the Shadow of Weimar Politics....Pages 154-175 Simone Weil: An Introduction....Pages 176-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 From International Law to International Relations: Émigré Scholars in American Political Science and International Relations....Pages 197-211 German Jews and American Realism....Pages 212-243 Back Matter....Pages 244-246 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.