John H. Herz

John H. Herz ( German name until 1940 Hans Hermann Heart, pseudonym: Eduard Bristler; born September 23, 1908 in Dusseldorf, † December 26, 2005 in Scarsdale, New York ) was a German -American political scientist and an important pioneer of Neo- Realism in International Relations. Heart is known primarily for his theory of the security dilemma. For this purpose, even power resources are accumulated, but not as an end in itself but as a means to an end (central criterion of demarcation of neo- realism to classical realism ).

Life

Heart studied law in Cologne, received his doctorate in 1931 with Hans Kelsen Dr. iur. , Was dismissed in 1933 as a Jew from the clerkship and emigrated in 1935 in Switzerland. There he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva and in 1938 emigrated to the United States, where he became professor of political science at Washington, then in New York ( emeritus 1977).

He was also co-editor of the journal Comparative Politics.

In 1951, he received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.

Works (selection)

• Eduard Bristler: The international legal doctrine of National Socialism, Emil Oprecht Verlag, Zurich 1938
• John H. Herz: Political realism and political idealism, 1959
• John H. Herz: World Politics in the Atomic Age, 1961
• John H. Herz: Government forms of the 20th century, Stuttgart, 1962 ( together with GM Carter )
• John H. Herz: From survival. As a world picture was taken. Autobiography. Droste, Dusseldorf 1984. ISBN 3-7700-0660-7