This page provides links to writings by and about the international relations scholar Hans J. Morgenthau (1904-1980) that are available on the Internet.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Die internationale Rechtspflege, ihr Wesen und ihre Grenzen. Leipzig, 1929.
Hans J. Morgenthau. La Notion du "Politique" et la Théorie des Différends Internationaux. Paris, 1933.
Hans J. Morgenthau. La Réalité des Normes; en particulier des Normes du Droit International. Paris, 1934.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Positivisme Mal Compris et Théorie Réaliste du Droit International. Madrid, 1936.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Scientific Man vs. Power Politics. Chicago, 1946.
Hans J. Morgenthau, ed. Peace, Security, and the United Nations. Chicago, 1946.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. New York, 1948. Excerpt.
Hans J. Morgenthau and Kenneth W. Thompson, eds. Principles and Problems of International Politics. New York, 1950.
Hans J. Morgenthau. In Defense of the National Interest. Washington, D. C., 1951.
Hans J. Morgenthau, ed. Germany and the Future of Europe. Chicago, 1951.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Dilemmas of Politics. Chicago, 1958.
Hans J. Morgenthau. The Purpose of American Politics. New York, 1960.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Politics in the Twentieth Century. 3 vols. Chicago, 1962.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Vietnam and the United States. Washington, D. C., 1965.
Hans J. Morgenthau. A New Foreign Policy for the United States. New York, 1969.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Truth and Power: Essays of a Decade, 1960-1970. London, 1970.
Hans J. Morgenthau. Science: Servant or Master? New York, 1972.
Anthony Lang, ed. Political Theory and International Affairs: Hans J. Morgenthau on Aristotle's "The Politics". 2004. Excerpt.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "Realism in International Politics," Naval War College Review, January 1958.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "Epistle to the Columbians," The New Republic, December 21, 1959.
Kenneth W. Thompson and Hans J. Morgenthau, "Morality and Foreign Policy," WORLDVIEW Magazine, June 1960.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "America: Its Purpose And Its Power," WORLDVIEW Magazine, November 1960.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "We Are Deluding Ourselves in Vietnam," New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1965.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "To Intervene or Not to Intervene," Foreign Affairs, April 1967.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "A New Pattern for America," WORLDVIEW Magazine, January 1968.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "Correspondence," WORLDVIEW Magazine, March 1969.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "The Present Tragedy of America," WORLDVIEW Magazine, September 1969.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "The Question of Detente," WORLDVIEW Magazine, March 1976.
Paul H. Nitze, Hans J. Morgenthau, et al., "Civil Defense: The New Debate," WORLDVIEW Magazine, January 1979.
Hans J. Morgenthau, et al., "Human Rights and Foreign Policy," First Distinguished CRIA Lecture on Morality & Foreign Policy, 1979.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "Paralysis at the Top," WORLDVIEW Magazine, June 1980.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "The Contraction of America," WORLDVIEW Magazine, August 1981.
Hans J. Morgenthau, "Self-Preservation," WORLDVIEW Magazine, July 1982.
Kenneth W. Thompson and Robert J. Myers, eds. Truth & Tragedy: A Tribute to Hans J. Morgenthau. New Brunswick and London, 1977.
Greg Russell. Hans J. Morgenthau and the Ethics of American Statecraft. Baton Rouge, 1990.
Christoph Frei. Hans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography. Baton Rouge, 2001.
Christian Hacke, Gottfried-Karl Kindermann, and Kai M. Schellhorn, eds. Hans Morgenthau--The Heritage, Challenge, and Future of Realism. Bonn, 2005. Conference description. Conference program. Opening remarks.
Robert Jervis, "Hans Morgenthau, realism, and the study of international politics," Social Research, Winter, 1994.
Hussein Solomon, "In Defence of Realism: Confessions of a Fallen Idealist," African Security Review, Vol 5, No 2, 1996.
Thomas C. Walker, ed., Special Issue: The Legacy of Hans Morgenthau, International Studies Notes, Vol 24, No 1, 1999.
Karl E. Meyer, "Weighing Iraq on Morgenthau's Scale," World Policy Journal, Fall 2003.
John J. Mearsheimer, "Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq war: realism versus neo-conservatism," openDemocracy.net, May 19, 2005.
Christian Hacke, "Power and Morality: On the Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau," American Foreign Policy Interests, June 2005.
Robert Kaufman, "Morgenthau's Unrealistic Realism," Yale Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2006.
Wikipedia article on Hans J. Morgenthau.
Morgenthau Memorial Lectures on Ethics and Foreign Policy.
Named for famed international relations scholar Hans Morgenthau, the annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture series is the longest-running public education initiative of the Carnegie Council.
Hans J. Morgenthau (1904-1980) was a founder of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in 1974 and its first chairman. As he defined and illuminated the national interests of the United States from the perspective of political realism, he became a seminal theorist of international relations. Accordingly, the National Committee's Hans J. Morgenthau Award is presented in his memory to individuals whose intellectual and practical contributions to American foreign policy have been judged to be so exemplary in the traditon of Professor Morgenthau that they merit this singular award.