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This Introduction presents the seven closely interlinked papers that explore the theme of this Special Issue, and one of the enduring existential questions for International Relations: the nuclear condition in the twenty-first century. The Special Issue is the second to come from two workshops sponsored by a UK Leverhulme grant, and it builds upon the first, more theoretical Special Issue, which brought Classical Realist and Critical Theory texts into dialogue. The major concern in the first Special Issue—the focus on modernity, crises, and humanity—is taken up here in more grounded practical terms, framed around the existential fears of nuclear annihilation. Each of the contributions re-assess the contemporary nuclear condition from within the theoretical frameworks provided by Classical Realism and Critical Theory. The engagement with both traditions allows the contributors to diagnose what is new, and what remains constant, in the contemporary nuclear condition.

Part I. Introduction: overview of Morgenthau's oeuvre and worldview; contextualization of "the concept of the political"; contextualization in the political and legal debates of his time; contextualization in the current (late 20th and 21st centuries); Morgenthau's epistemological commitments; Morgenthau's twofold concept of power -- Part II. The concept of the political / Hans J. Morgenthau: translator's note by Maeva Vidal; preface; introduction; on the concept of legal disputes; the concept of the political; on the concept of political dispute; Conclusions

Published in English for the first time, this careful translation of Hans J. Morgenthau's 1933 French monograph La Notion du 'Politique' brings this important early work of the 'founding father' of International Relations to an English-speaking audience. Morgenthau's European writings are mostly unknown to the English-speaking IR community, yet they comprise some of his most influential work from a politics and IR perspective. In this book, Morgenthau presents his notion of the political which he develops in critical disassociation from Carl Schmidt's conception of 'friend' and 'foe'and Hans Kelsen's legal positivism. These critiques are crucial for understanding Morgenthau's later work which has often been used ₆ and misused ₆ by US Foreign Policy makers and International Relations scholars. With a comprehensive introduction and contextualization by the editors, this highly significant book will be essential for all students and scholars of Politics, International Relations and International Law to safeguard democratic politics against the perils of ideology and positivism.

Introduction / Cornelia Navari 21. - Crisis, Values, and the Purpose of Science: Hans Morgenthau in Europe / Felix Rösch 23. - Scientific Man vs. Power Politics: A Pamphlet and Its Author between Two Academic Cultures / Hartmut Behr 33. - Politics Among Nations: Revisiting a Classic / Christoph Frei 39. - Hans Morgenthau and the National Interest / Cornelia Navari 47. - Hans Morgenthau and The Purpose of American Politics / Richard Ned Lebow 55. - Death of the Statesman as Tragic Hero: Hans Morgenthau on the Vietnam War / Douglas B. Klusmeyer 63

1: 2002. - 550 S. : Reg., Lit.Hinw. - (UTB ; 2218). - ISBN 3-8252-2218-7 - ISBN 3-8100-3048-1; 2: 2001. - 507 S. : Reg., Lit.Hinw. - (UTB ; 2219). - ISBN 3-8252-2219-5 - ISBN 3-8100-3049-X