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oai:doaj.org/article:8d67416ad1be40c28d25e8e14b435c55

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10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2018.37.002

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The turn of International Law to International Relations in Hans J. Morgenthau: a transition mediated by history

Abstract

This text addresses the role that historical considerations played in a substantial theoretical movement: from the 1940s onwards, there has been a shift from international law to international relations as the main regulatory discipline at inter-State level. Hans J. Morgenthau will be taken as the clearest example of this movement. Like so many other European intellectuals in exile in the United States, the change of continent and academic background will mean for Morgenthau the leap from the study of law to the study of politics. To explain this movement, and in particular the weight that history has on it, the article will be structured in the following paragraphs: (1) the formation of Morgenthau as a lawyer always interested in history and power relations, strongly influenced by the theories of Simmel, Mannheim and Schütz and their situational determination of knowledge; (2) analysis of his unfamiliar scientific Man versus Power Politics (1946) as a key point of Morgenthau’s historicism; and (3) criticism of international jurisdiction as a point of break with legal science.

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