IN THE late 1940s, Leo Strauss left the New School for Social Research in New York to take a position at the University of Chicago. Hans Morgenthau, who was a professor in the Political Science ...

Hans Morgenthau was a leading postwar intellectual of political realism in the international relations discipline and, at times, an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy. In his 1949 article, “The ...

New York Times book review editor Barry Gewen is right that we can only understand today’s world through an intellectual framework that emphasizes power and cautions against excessive optimism about ...

We used to think about Vietnam as a problem. For officials in Washington, the problem was how to beat the Vietcong; for university critics of the government's policy, the problem was how to convince ...

The only revolutionary fact in international relations since the beginning of history" -- the development of atomic weapons -- may keep the current arms race from becoming too great. Hans J.

Last week The New York Times reported on two diplomatic events that unfolded simultaneously in the Middle East. At the very moment that Israel’s tourism minister traveled to Saudi Arabia to attend a ...