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(2014) Émigré scholars and the genesis of international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Totalitarian ideology and power conflicts
Waldemar Gurian as international relations analyst after the second world war
Ellen Thümmler
pp. 132-153
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 F. Rösch (ed.), Émigré scholars and the genesis of international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 132-153.
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