Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET June 2015 Political Science
Which of the following scholars of international politics did not subscribe to the view that no social service can survive without idealistic aspects?
AHerbert Butterfield
BEH Carr
CReinhold Niebuhr
DArnold Wolfers ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Arnold Wolfers — The scholar who did not accept that social institutions need an idealistic element was Arnold Wolfers.
Explanation
★The scholar who did not accept that social institutions need an idealistic element was Arnold Wolfers.
★Arnold Wolfers was a Swiss-American realist scholar of international politics and security studies.
★His collection 'Discord and Collaboration' (1962) analysed national security as an ambiguous symbol guiding state policy.
★Wolfers stressed power, interest and security rather than moral or idealist foundations for political life.
★Herbert Butterfield, a Christian historian of the English School, by contrast kept a strong moral dimension in world politics.
★E.H. Carr, though a realist, insisted that sound theory must balance utopia with reality.
★Reinhold Niebuhr, a Christian realist, rooted politics in ethics and the moral predicament of human nature.
★The contrast between pure power realism and ethically tempered realism is a recurring theme in International Relations theory.
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