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Comment: “International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.

  • UPSC 2006, 2000
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  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The sentence opens Part Two of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations (1948), followed at once by "Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim." Morgenthau wrote it against interwar idealism, to give post-war American policy a disciplined theory. It is the founding proposition of classical realism. It is indispensable,…

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