At the end of the decade, Robert Good argued that while the self-proclaimed ‘realists’ had been united in their opposition to idealist ‘illusions’, this dichotomous view of international thought revealed a great deal more about differences within realism. His article put Morgenthau and George Kennan’s ‘relativist’ and ‘transcendental’ ethics into a hypothetical ‘debate’ with Niebuhr’s ‘superior’ position of a ‘dialectic’ between ‘love and self-love’.In 1961 William Fox and Annette Fox expanded on Waldo’s earlier suspicions about the ‘Great Debate’ by questioning its significance in the historical development of the field. They argued that the key realist concept of power had been a significant component of inter-national thought in the United States in the early 1930s, well before Carr had published The twenty years’ crisis