Contributor
Morgenthau, Hans J. (Hans Joachim), 1904-1980.
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1982, c1950.
Description468, xii p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Reprint. Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1950 [i.e. 1951]
Note:Includes index.
Note:THE SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- The art of guessing in politics -- The encyclopedia science of international relations -- The methodological foundation of the science of international relations -- WHAT FOREIGN POLICY IS ALL ABOUT -- The universality of power politics -- The national interest versus Abstract moral principles -- Power calculations vs. false comparisons -- A brave new world without power politics -- Philanthropy vs. The National Interest -- The supremacy of the National Interest -- Two more aspects of the supremacy of the National Interest -- NATIONAL POWER -- Imperialist devil in wall Street -- The imperialist devil in capitalism -- How empires are built -- How Japan planned to build its empire -- THE ELEMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER -- The impact of location on power -- The economics of national power -- Peoples and prospects of national power -- The role of National character
Note:INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND PEACE -- The balance of power - The fundamental law of international politics -- The balance of power - The universal law of politics -- The uses of International law -- A balance sheet for the United Nations -- The preconditions for the World Government -- World Government - Alternative to Total destruction -- Technique of diplomacy -- THE FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE GREAT POWERS -- How to conduct foreign affairs the hard way -- Seven populat misconceptions of American foreign policy -- The balance of power - Principle of American foreign policy -- The containment of the Soviet Union: The Truman doctrine -- The economic restoration of Europe - The Marshall Plan -- The military restoration of Europe - The Atlantic Defense Treaty -- Foreign Aid determined by National Interest -- Reformulation of the Truman Doctrine and the problem of Asia -- British foreign policy speaks out wiith one voice -- Hoe to think about British foreign policy and all foreign policy -- The balance of power - the principle of British foreign policy -- The two mainsprings of Soviet foreign policy -- The consistency of Russian foreign policy --
Note:PRESENT PROBLEMS OF FOREIGN POLICY -- World politics in the Atomic Age -- THe new balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union -- Strengt as a pillar of peace -- Accommodation as the other pillar of peace -- Two worlds are better than none -- What threatens us? - Imperialism -- What threatens us? - World Revolution -- What threatens us? - Nothing at all -- Idealogical crusade vs. Protection from the National Interest -- Again the National Interest as the ultimate standard of Foreign Policy -- What we seek and what we oppose -- Counter-revolution is not a foreign policy -- Whoever disturbs the balance of power is the enemy -- The Russian threat to Western Europe -- The Russian threat to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean -- Russia cannot be stopped by paper agreements -- The perennial aspects of the East/West conflict -- The outlook
Note:Causes and conditions of conflict -- The Russian frontier is at the Elbe -- Germany: Battleground, Bastion or buffer? -- Armed defense for Europe's salvation -- The United States of Europe -- European Union and the British dilemma -- Rudiments of a European Constitution -- THe nature of a conflict in Asia -- The sources of Soviet and Western strength in Asia -- CONCLUSION -- The task before the western world.
