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Cox, Michael. "E.H. Carr and the Troubled Origins of American Realism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42649_index.html>

Cox, M. , 2005-09-01 "E.H. Carr and the Troubled Origins of American Realism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42649_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: E.H.Carr was one of a handful European writers whose experiences of the inter-war crisis did an enormous amount to shape the contours of IR in the United States in the post-war period. Certainly, Carr was to exert a good deal more influence on mainstream realist thinking in IR than his British contemporary and adversary, Martin Wight. Morgenthau for example read and commented upon his work in an extended review essay published in the first issue of World Politics in 1948. Later Ken Thompson championed his cause. And of course Bob Gilpin quite openly admitted that The Twenty Years’ Crisis had very directly influenced his work on world order and the relationship (which he claimed to see) between the existence of a single liberal hegemon and an open trading system. Not for nothing did Gilpin call Carr his ‘second favourite’ realist after Thucydides. Yet Carr as we shall see from what follows was not only not ‘in’ IR, but having written one of its classics in 1939 thereafter revealed absolutely no interest at all in academic IR as taught in either the US or the UK after WWII. True he brought out second (and controversially modified) edition of the book in 1946. He even took a strong commercial interest in its fate in the United States. Yet about the subject itself he was indifferent or hostile. Indeed, when pressed by Stanley Hoffman he argued that the academic discipline as such was little more than an ideology of the powerful deployed to both masquerade and justify their continued dominance in a world of haves and have-nots. This may have been one of the reasons – there were others – why Carr was subsequently taken up by those openly hostile to realism. This should not have come as a surprise. After all when Carr wrote The Twenty Years’ Crisis he did not think he was providing a primer on the world system as was and would remain for ever; on the contrary he thought that he was providing something close to Marxist critique of the international system – a system in his view that was doomed by history to be replaced by something less anarchic and thus more rational. He did not even think the nation-state (the unit of international politics according to realists) could or should survive in a rational world. Yet surprisingly (or not) the realists still champion the cause of Carr. Indeed, it was John Mearsheimer no less in the last E.H.Carr lecture delivered at Aberystwyth in 2005 who tried to claim Carr back from his idealist misinterpreters - proof if any proof were needed that the legacy of Carr has indeed been a troubled one, not only ,but perhaps especially, for those of the realist tradition in the United States.

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