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Masters of International Thought (Paperback)
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Masters of International Thought (Paperback)
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The complexities of modern politics and international relationships
sometimes overwhelm us. Kenneth W. Thompson here offers clarity to
replace obscurity, personal warmth and human values to replace
abstractions. He states the aim of Masters of International Thought
early: to introduce the ideas of eighteen ""men of large and
capacious thought"" about twentieth-century international
relations. He presents thinkers who assimilate practical ethics and
religion (Butterfield, Niebuhr, Murray, Wight); who eschew utopia
for the reality of power politics (Carr, Morgenthau, Spykman,
Wolfers, Herz, Deutsch); who regard the Cold War as a mirror of the
human condition (Lippman, Kennan, Halle, Aron); and who speculate
about the possibilities of world order (Wright, Mitrany, de
Visscher, and Toynbee). Thompson was guided in his selections by
the enduring value of these men's thought. Even those works that
are fifty years old are still read by policy makers and scholars,
Thompson points out. He also acknowledges his personal approach to
these masters, for not only has he known their works, he has known
many of the writers. He admits that they are ""intellectual giants,
but they are human beings, not gods."" In Masters of International
Thought, he clearly fulfills his aim to share the wisdom and
knowledge of these twentieth-century thinkers.
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