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In Defense of Diplomacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Harold Sprout
Harold Sprout
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Princeton
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Publication of Politics Among Nations is another important milestone in the development of systematic studies of international political phenomena into an established and recognized branch of higher learning.

Comparison of this impressive treatise with any work published before 1914 reveals in dramatic fashion how much ground has already been covered. Before World War I, as Grayson Kirk has described, the study of international relations was largely carried on in the sterile atmosphere of international law and conventionalized diplomatic history. The crusade for the League of Nations opened up a new field and gave great impetus to the study of world organization. This newcomer practically stole the show during the 1920's. But the course of world events did not fulfill the bright hopes fostered by schemes for disarmament, outlawry of war, collective security, judicial settlement of disputes, and codification of international law. Teachers and writers, however, continued to play the same old records, which sounded more and more unconvincing as the dictators prepared the stage for another world war.

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World Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , April 1949 , pp. 404 - 413
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1949

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References

1 The Study of International Relations in American Colleges and Universities, New York, Council on Foreign Relations, 1947.

2 New York, McGraw-Hill, 1933. The fourth edition of this widely used text appeared in 1948.

3 New York, American Book Company.

4 London and New York, Macmillan Co.

5 America's Strategy in World Politics, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1942.

6 For example, the ASTP textbook, Geographical Foundations of National Power, Army Service Forces Manual, M-103, Govt. Printing Office, 1944.Google Scholar

7 Mackinde's Democratic Ideals and Reality, first published in 1919, and long out of print, was reprinted in 1942, with an introduction by Edward M. Earle.