F. Roesch & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations 
A European Discipline in America?

This is the first Anglophone volume on émigré scholars’ influence on International Relations, uniquely exploring the intellectual development of IR as a discipline and providing a re-reading of some of its almost forgotten founding thinkers.

Table of Content

Introduction 1. Wither the Silence: European Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of an American Discipline; Felix Rösch PART I: ÉMIGRÉ SCHOLARS AND THE PROBLEM OF TRANSLATING KNOWLEDGE 2. People on the Move – Ideas on the Move: Academic Cultures and the Problematic of Translatability; Hartmut Behr and Xander Kirke 3. Translating Max Weber: Exile Attempts to Forge a New Political Science; Peter Breiner PART II: ÉMIGRÉ SCHOLARS AND THE GENESIS OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 4. International Law, Émigrés and the Foundation of International Relations; Peter M R Stirk 5. ‘Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Disappearing Act’; William E. Scheuerman 6. ‘Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?’ The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann; David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland 7. From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers; Rainer Eisfeld 8. Totalitarian Ideology and Power Conflicts – Waldemar Gurian as International Relations Analyst after the Second World War; Ellen Thümmler 9. ‘Foreign Policy in the Making’ – Carl J. Friedrich’s Realism in the Shadow of Weimar Politics; Paul Petzschmann 10. Simone Weil: An Introduction; Helen M. Kinsella PART III: ÉMIGRÉ SCHOLARS AND THEIR HISTORIC-SEMIOTIC NETWORKS IN THE UNITED STATES 11. From International Law to International Relations. Émigré Scholars in American Political Science and International Relations; Alfons Söllner 12. German Jews and American Realism; Richard Ned Lebow ?

About the author

Hartmut Behr, Newcastle University, UK Peter Breiner, The University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Rainer Eisfeld, University of Osnabrück, Germany David Kettler, Bard College, New York, USA Helen M. Kinsella, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Xander Kirke, Newcastle University, UK Richard Ned Lebow, King’s College London, UK Paul Petzschmann, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, Norway William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University, USA Alfons Söllner, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Peter Stirk, Durham University, UK Ellen Thümmler, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Thomas Wheatland, Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA