Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Felix Rösch

      Pages 1-18

3. Émigré Scholars and the Problem of Translating Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. People on the Move — Ideas on the Move: Academic Cultures and the Problematic of Translatability

      • Hartmut Behr, Xander Kirke

      Pages 21-39

   3. Translating Max Weber: Exile Attempts to Forge a New Political Science

      • Peter Breiner

      Pages 40-58

4. Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of American International Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. International Law, Émigrés, and the Foundation of International Relations

      • Peter M. R. Stirk

      Pages 61-80

   3. “Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Disappearing Act”

      • William E. Scheuerman

      Pages 81-102

   4. “Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?” The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann

      • David Kettler, Thomas Wheatland

      Pages 103-112

   5. From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers

      • Rainer Eisfeld

      Pages 113-131

   6. Totalitarian Ideology and Power Conflicts — Waldemar Gurian as International Relations Analyst after the Second World War

      • Ellen Thümmler

      Pages 132-153

   7. “Foreign Policy in the Making” — Carl J. Friedrich’s Realism in the Shadow of Weimar Politics

      • Paul Petzschmann

      Pages 154-175

   8. Simone Weil: An Introduction

      • Helen M. Kinsella

      Pages 176-193

5. Émigré Scholars and their Historic-Semiotic Networks in the United States

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. From International Law to International Relations: Émigré Scholars in American Political Science and International Relations

      • Alfons Söllner

      Pages 197-211

   3. German Jews and American Realism

      • Richard Ned Lebow

      Pages 212-243

6. Back Matter

   Pages 244-246

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This is the first Anglophone volume on émigré scholars' influence on International Relations, uniquely exploring the intellectual development of IR as a discipline and providing a re-reading of some of its almost forgotten founding thinkers.

• International relations
• classical theory
• emigre scholars
• Europe
• conflict
• foreign policy
• Franz L. Neumann
• Germany
• international relations
• law
• Max Weber
• policy
• political science
• Political Studies
• political theory
• Political Thought
• realism

"We may wonder why, exactly, it has taken so long for the field of International Relations to not only notice but to properly and comprehensively analyze the overwhelming influence of émigré scholars upon the evolution of IR as a discipline. Yet even if you are not a big believer in fate, you will come away from this fascinating, historically-rich, and theoretically sophisticated volume inspired that the first-ever 'take' on this topic is one that does justice to the European impact on the 'American' field of International Relations. This volume traces, contextualizes, and then situates into the present day these connections in lively detail. Roesch has gathered together a forceful set of contributions, and contributors, for this volume that complement one another perfectly in sequence, content, and argument. Scholars interested in the history, and historiography, of the IR 'discipline' in their research and in their courses now have a transformative and imperative work at-the-ready that reorients our understanding of no less than the entire history of the development of the 'American' IR field. Chapters in this volume delineate the influences that continue to shape our understanding of International Relations today from the conventional to critical, from mainstream to the dissident. Émigré Scholars breaks through the 'silence' on this topic not merely with an additional voice on the history of IR, but with a sonic boom."

- Brent J. Steele, University of Utah,USA

• Coventry University, UK

  Felix Rösch

Hartmut Behr, Newcastle University, UK Peter Breiner, The University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Rainer Eisfeld, University of Osnabrück, Germany David Kettler, Bard College, New York, USA Helen M. Kinsella, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Xander Kirke, Newcastle University, UK Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London, UK Paul Petzschmann, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, Norway William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University, USA Alfons Söllner, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Peter Stirk, Durham University, UK Ellen Thümmler, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Thomas Wheatland, Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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