Political Science · International Relations
Which of the following scholars of international politics did NOT subscribe to the view that no social science can survive without idealistic aspects?
AHerbert Butterfield
BE.H. Carr
CReinhold Niebuhr
DArnold Wolfers ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Arnold Wolfers — Arnold Wolfers did not subscribe to this idealistic view, so the answer is Arnold Wolfers.
Explanation
★Arnold Wolfers did not subscribe to this idealistic view, so the answer is Arnold Wolfers.
★Butterfield and Niebuhr held that values and ideals cannot be removed from politics.
★They blended realism with a strong moral and religious sense.
★Wolfers took a more strictly analytical, realist position.
★He kept moral idealism more apart from the science of international politics.
★So Wolfers is the scholar who did not share this idealistic view.
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