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Totalitarian Ideology and Power Conflicts — Waldemar Gurian as International Relations Analyst after the Second World War

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Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations

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Franz L. Neumann (1978: 402–428) describes the political scholar as the intellectual emigrant-archetype between 1933 and 1945, who was able to positively reconcile his/her original academic discipline with the scientific traditions of his/her country of exile. It is not a matter of denying the biographical discontinuity of emigration, but of incorporating this fact constructively into an intellectual biography. This archetype is characterised by a form of opposition to National Socialism that — with the instruments of social science — contributed prolifically to German and European political realignment after the end of the Second World War. At the same time, emigration transformed academic work: a disrupted career, threats, and persecutions, as well as the adjustment to a foreign language, knowledge culture, and academic tradition, all left their marks.

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Thümmler, E. (2014). Totalitarian Ideology and Power Conflicts — Waldemar Gurian as International Relations Analyst after the Second World War. In: Rösch, F. (eds) Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334695_8

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