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10 de mar. de 2016 · The Purpose of American Politics is very much a book of the late 1950s in terms of the outlook of the author and the issues it addresses: the cold war, and specifically the missile gap; the economic challenge of the Soviet Union; alliances and foreign aid; and nuclear weapons and deterrence.
- Hans Joachim Morgenthau
- 1960
The Purpose of American Politics is a book published in 1960 by the realist academic and political commentator Hans Morgenthau. In the book, Morgenthau defines the purpose of American politics as "the achievement of freedom".
- Hans Joachim Morgenthau
- 1960
6 de mai. de 2020 · I. The purpose of America : equality in freedom. The contemporary crisis ; The reality of the national purpose ; The American experience ; Equality in freedom ; The American Revolution ; The threefold purpose ; The denial -- II.
- At Home
- Abroad
- World Order in 1960
Morgenthau laments that the purpose of America has been reduced to ‘equality at home and safety abroad.’ These goals lack substantive content and say nothing about ‘the transcendent purpose’ for which equality and safety are sought. America has a purpose—multiple purposes, in fact—that derive from the conceptions of order that motivated the country...
Morgenthau’s analysis of the Cold War derives in part from the realist theory he developed in Politics Among Nations (1948a). It differs importantly from his In Defense of the National Interestin his depiction of the Soviet Union. In the earlier work, he expresses the hope that it could be confined to a sphere of influence. Now, he describes the So...
The ‘existential threat’ that nuclear weapons pose to all nations cannot be addressed with the framework of sovereign states. The only solution is to transfer control of nuclear weapons to a supranational authority. This is, however, an ideal. American efforts to this goal, most notably the Acheson-Baruch-Lilienthal Proposal of 1946 and the 1958–19...
- Richard Ned Lebow
- 2018
Overview. The Purpose of American Politics was Morgenthau’s first attempt to author a book primarily about the United States. He explores opposing American political traditions and their implications for foreign policy.
While limited to America, The Purpose of American Politics is comparative in the same sense as Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, as it is deeply informed by his European upbringing and experiences. Like Tocqueville’s account, its core ar-guments are rooted in political philosophy.
The purpose of American politics. by. Morgenthau, Hans Joachim, 1904-. Publication date. 1960. Topics. United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century, United States -- History -- Philosophy, United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Publisher.
