The human condition of politics: considering the legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau for international relations

Classical realism and Morgenthau in particular have recently experienced a revived interest in International Relations (IR). The evolving debate has helped to contextualise and reconstruct Morgenthau's thought which until now had been misrepresented in structural realist and early poststructuralist interpretations. However, despite all of its achievements, we have yet to draw more attention to Morgenthau's contribution to contemporary IR theory. To contribute to the closing of this research gap this article considers a set of questions which Morgenthau himself asked at the beginning of his career as its conceptual framework. It is argued that Morgenthau was particularly concerned with the dehumanisation of socio-political life in modern democracies evoked through processes of ideologisation, technologisation, and scientification, which he countered by focusing on a re-introduction of the human factor to politics. This demonstrates that Morgenthau's work is a rich source for IR theory because his intellectual agenda was driven by concerns similar to what we find in post-structuralism

A Publicly Available PCR Methods Laboratory Manual and Supporting Material

<p>We report the creation of a PCR methods laboratory manual and supporting material. The manual contains 24 different procedures designed to illustrate basic PCR concepts and promote independent problem-solving skills. Each lab poses a question about PCR and provides a list of materials the student may use to investigate the question. Supplemental materials available to instructors include answers to post-lab questions, lab set-up information, 82 assessment questions and answers, 22 PowerPoint slides, a sample syllabus, experiment set-up illustrations and example results for most labs. The student lab book is available as a supplemental file and at http://ans.latech.edu/BasicPCRMethods.html, while Instructor-specific materials are available from the corresponding author at no charge. </p