Political Science · International Relations
Who believes that a theory of international politics is 'but a specific instance of a general theory of politics'?
ATucker
BMorgenthau ✓ Correct
CKennan
DWasserman
Correct answer: (B) Morgenthau — Morgenthau holds that a theory of international politics is a specific instance of a general theory of politics, so the answer is Morgenthau.
Explanation
★Morgenthau holds that a theory of international politics is a specific instance of a general theory of politics, so the answer is Morgenthau.
★For him all politics, domestic or international, is a struggle for power.
★The same laws of power apply within and between states.
★International politics is therefore one branch of a general politics of power.
★This gives his realism a single, unified theoretical base.
★So this view that ties IR to a general theory of politics is Morgenthau's.
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