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In Defense of the National Interest (full title In Defense of the National interest: A Critical Examination of American Foreign Policy) is a 1951 book by realist academic Hans Morgenthau. [1] The book is a critique of what Morgenthau calls 'deeply ingrained habits of thought and preconceptions as to the nature of foreign policy in the United States'. [2]

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  1. ^ Tucker, Robert W. (1952). "Professor Morgenthau's Theory of Political "Realism"". American Political Science Review. 46 (1): 214–224. doi: 10.2307/1950770. ISSN  0003-0554. JSTOR  1950770. S2CID  147361610.
  2. ^ Quoted in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach, M. Scott Solomon (2009) Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, Abingdon: Routledge, p. 54