Which of the following scholars of International Politics did not subscribe to this view that no social…
Classical realists such as E.H. Carr (in The Twenty Years’ Crisis), Reinhold Niebuhr, and Herbert Butterfield explicitly argued that any sound political or social science…
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Which of the following scholars of International Politics did not subscribe to this view that no social science can survive without idealistic aspects ?
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Classical realists such as E.H. Carr (in The Twenty Years’ Crisis), Reinhold Niebuhr, and Herbert Butterfield explicitly argued that any sound political or social science must combine realist analysis of power with normative or idealistic elements of purpose and morality. In standard Indian international-relations literature, Arnold Wolfers (‘Arnold Wolters’) is identified as the exception to this specific proposition.
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