 | Kenneth W. Thompson - 1999 - 194 страници
...civilized world. To these judgments Morgenthau responded hi the most uncompromising terms, saying: "Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim. Statesmen and people may ultimately seek freedom, security, prosperity or power itself. They may define their goals... | |
 | Raymond Aron, Miriam Bernheim Conant - 1978 - 314 страници
...pages of the book. His theory opens with the following proposition: International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...politics, power is always the immediate aim. Statesmen and people may ultimately seek freedom, security, prosperity, or power itself. They may define their goals... | |
 | David A. Welch - 1995 - 356 страници
...second passage several pages after the first, in which he writes, "International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...seek freedom, security, prosperity, or power itself. They may define their goals in terms of a religious, philosophic, economic, or social ideal . . . But... | |
 | David Halloran Lumsdaine - 1993 - 382 страници
...Politics Among Nations. Morgenthau opens chap. 3 with the words, "International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...international politics, power is always the immediate aim" (1954, p. 25). He opens chap. 4 with the words, "Domestic and international politics are but different... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 страници
...ignore the mechanics of physical force." Walter Lippmann, 1943 Power: "International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...seek freedom, security, prosperity, or power itself. They may define their goals in terms of a religious, philosophic, economic, or social ideal. . . .... | |
 | Douglas Johnston, Cynthia Sampson - 1995 - 372 страници
...found the pursuit of power unrelated to some other objective as simply irrational. Not so Morgenthau: "Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim."27 In this theoretical construct, however, it is also the ultimate aim. Despite lip service to... | |
 | Benjamin Frankel - 1996 - 454 страници
...eliminated from politics because, as Morgenthau states repeatedly, "International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...international politics, power is always the immediate aim."t59 This lust for power recurs because it is itself rooted in human nature. The inability to understand... | |
 | Vladimir Tismaneanu - 1995 - 426 страници
...interest, states seek power.22 As Hans Morganthau starkly stated, "International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...international politics, power is always the immediate aim."23 States can acquire power either by internal balancing — that is, increasing internal power... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 1998 - 356 страници
...opening words of Politics Among Nations put the realist case succinctly. International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...aims of international politics, power is always the immedi11 Hans J. Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (Chicago, 1946), 5-10, 524, 59-60, 70-2,... | |
 | Michael J. Hogan - 1999 - 554 страници
...understand how the world worked. He proceeded to provide a primer: International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate...seek freedom, security, prosperity, or power itself. They may define their goals in terms of a religious, philosophic, economic, or social ideal. They may... | |
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International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim. 
