Abstract

LIMA, Maria Regina Soares de. The Intellectual Legacy of Hans Morgenthau. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2018, n.58, pp.27-40. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2018.58a03.

The reception of Hans Morgenthau’s work in a north American academic-institutional context, as a typical representative of the “power politics” school, turned out to misrepresent and simplify his realist theory of the interactional relations. From a perspective that takes into account other intellectual influences, the article looks at the wealth of the author’s theoretical contribution and its dialogue with some contemporary approaches, highlighting some of them: the pluralist conception of the “political man”; the development of a theory of politics which can be thought both for a domestic and an international scope; the anticipation of a concept of international anarchy; and the understanding of power as social relationship, including material and symbolic dimensions. Finally, the article explores Morgenthau’s contribution to an analysis of powerless countries’ foreign policy, exploring themes of political prestige, diplomatic capacities and soft power.

Keywords : Political realism; agency and foreign policy; anarchy and hierarchy; politics of prestige.

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