1. Hans Joachim Morgenthau was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations.
44 Facts About Hans Morgenthau
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Hans Morgenthau made landmark contributions to international relations theory and the study of international law.
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Hans Morgenthau knew and corresponded with many of the leading intellectuals and writers of his era, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, George F Kennan, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt.
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At one point in the early Cold War, Hans Morgenthau was a consultant to the US Department of State when Kennan headed its Policy Planning Staff, as well as a second time during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations until he was dismissed by Johnson when he began to publicly criticize American policy in Vietnam.
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For most of his career Hans Morgenthau was esteemed as an academic interpreter of US foreign policy.
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Hans Morgenthau was born in an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Germany in 1904.
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Hans Morgenthau received his doctorate in 1929 with a thesis entitled International Jurisdiction: Its Nature and Limits, and pursued postdoctoral work at the Geneva Graduate Institute, in Switzerland.
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Hans Morgenthau taught and practiced law in Frankfurt before emigrating to the United States in 1937, after several interim years in Switzerland and Spain.
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From 1939 to 1943, Hans Morgenthau taught in Kansas City and taught at Keneseth Israel Shalom Congregation there.
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Hans Morgenthau then was a professor at the University of Chicago until 1973, when he took a professorial chair at the City College of New York.
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Hans Morgenthau was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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On moving to New York, Hans Morgenthau separated from his wife, who remained in Chicago partly because of medical issues.
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On October 8,1979, Hans Morgenthau was one of the passengers on board Swissair Flight 316, which crashed while trying to land at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport.
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Hans Morgenthau died on July 19,1980, shortly after being admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York with a perforated ulcer.
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Hans Morgenthau is buried in the Chabad section of Montefiore Cemetery, in proximity to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, with whom he had a respectful relationship.
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Hans Morgenthau completed his doctoral dissertation in Germany in the late 1920s.
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The legal scholar Hans Kelsen, who had just arrived in Geneva as a professor, was an adviser to Morgenthau's dissertation.
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Kelsen and Hans Morgenthau became lifelong colleagues even after both emigrated from Europe to take academic positions in the United States.
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In 1933, Hans Morgenthau published a second book in French, La notion du "politique", which was translated into English and published in 2012 as The Concept of the Political.
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Hans Morgenthau borrowed ideas from Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Roscoe Pound, and others.
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In 1940 Hans Morgenthau set out a research program for legal functionalism in the article "Positivism, Functionalism, and International Law".
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Hans Morgenthau is considered one of the "founding fathers" of the realist school in the 20th century.
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Recent scholarly assessments of Hans Morgenthau show that his intellectual trajectory was more complicated than originally thought.
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Hans Morgenthau argued in Politics Among Nations that skillful diplomacy drawing on these principles could lead to stability via the balance of power.
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Hans Morgenthau approached Chinese immigrant and political scientist Tsou Tang to explore the Sino-American relationship using both American and Chinese materials.
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Hans Morgenthau trusted Tsou, having served on Tsou's committees for his master's and PhD theses.
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Hans Morgenthau was a strong supporter of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
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Hans Morgenthau sparred with Johnson's advisors McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow.
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Hans Morgenthau's dissent concerning American involvement in Vietnam, which he viewed mainly as a civil war whose "global significance" was "remote," brought him considerable public and media attention.
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On 21 June 1965, Hans Morgenthau debated Bundy live on television under the title Vietnam Dialogue: Mr Bundy and the Professors with Eric Sevareid as the moderator.
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Langguth wrote that Bundy's point was irrelevant as Diem had been assassinated in 1963, but Bundy made it sound as if Hans Morgenthau was opportunistic and inconsistent.
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In summer 1978, Hans Morgenthau wrote his last co-authored essay titled "The Roots of Narcissism," with Ethel Person of Columbia University.
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Hans Morgenthau admired Tillich's book Love, Power and Justice, and he wrote a second essay related to the book's themes.
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Hans Morgenthau was a tireless reviewer of books during the several decades of his career as a scholar in the United States.
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Hans Morgenthau wrote nearly a hundred book reviews, including almost three dozen for The New York Review of Books alone.
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The last book review Hans Morgenthau wrote for The New York Review of Books appeared in 1971.
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Hans Morgenthau remained throughout the Cold War an active participant in the discussion of US foreign policy.
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Hans Morgenthau wrote in this connection about Henry Kissinger and his role in the Nixon administration.
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Schmitt had become a leading juristic voice for the rising Nazi movement in Germany, and Hans Morgenthau came to see their positions as irreconcilable, although it has been argued that Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau engaged in a "hidden dialogue" in which they influenced each other.
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Waltz criticized Hans Morgenthau for seeing the maintenance of a balance of power as dependent on states' motives and conscious aims, leading to what Waltz called a "distortion" of balance-of-power theory.
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Hans Morgenthau saw many aspects of the nuclear arms race as a form of irrationality requiring the attention of responsible diplomats, statesmen, and scholars.
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Christoph Frei's intellectual biography of Hans Morgenthau, published in English translation in 2001 was one of the first of many substantial publications about Hans Morgenthau in the 2000s.
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Hans Morgenthau saw the ethical and moral component of international politics as an integral part of the reasoning process of the international statesman and the essential content of responsible scholarship in international relations.
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Scholars continue to explore various aspects of Hans Morgenthau's thought, as well as his place in relation to twentieth-century intellectual currents and the disciplinary history of political science and international relations.