{"product_id":"the-invention-of-international-relations-nicolas-guilhot-9780231152679","title":"The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal event and its odd rejection of scientific rationalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFar from being a spontaneous development, these essays argue, the emergence of a \"realist\" approach to international politics, later codified at the conference, was deliberately triggered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The organization was an early advocate of scholars who opposed the idea of a \"science\" of politics, pursuing, for the sake of disciplinary autonomy, a vision of politics as a prerational and existential dimension that could not be \"solved\" by scientific means. As a result, this nascent theory was more a rejection of behavioral social science than the birth of one of its specialized branches. The archived conversations reproduced here, along with unpublished papers by Hans Morgenthau, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Nitze, speak to this defensive stance. International relations theory is critically linked to the context of postwar liberalism, and the contributors explore how these origins have played out in political thought and American foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicolas Guilhot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231152671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231152679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2011","brand":"Nicolas Guilhot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45331705037055,"sku":"9780231152679","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bab815e3-ca90-49f4-a4d9-18df3706c365.jpg?v=1713970671","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invention-of-international-relations-nicolas-guilhot-9780231152679","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}