Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET December 2018 Political Science
Who said that theories should be judged 'not by some pre-occupied abstract principle or concept unrelated to reality. Its purpose is to bring order and meaning to a mass of phenomena'?
AEH Carr
BHans J. Morgenthau ✓ Correct
CStephen Krasner
DKenneth Waltz
Correct answer: (B) Hans J. Morgenthau — The view that a theory must bring order and meaning to a mass of phenomena, not follow abstract principles detached from reality, belongs to Hans J. Morgenthau.
Explanation
★The view that a theory must bring order and meaning to a mass of phenomena, not follow abstract principles detached from reality, belongs to Hans J. Morgenthau.
★Morgenthau is the founder of modern classical realism.
★He set out this approach in his major work 'Politics Among Nations' (1948).
★For him a sound theory is judged by how well it organises and explains observable reality.
★He rooted international politics in the pursuit of national interest defined as power.
★E.H. Carr was a realist too but is linked with 'The Twenty Years' Crisis', not this statement.
★Stephen Krasner is associated with regime theory, a later and different concern.
★Kenneth Waltz built structural realism, shifting realism from human nature to system structure.
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