The literature on global international relations (IR) has argued that the discipline develops in the footsteps of world politics, but no sustained attention has been given to more immediate causes such as the funders that pay for IR teaching and scholarship. These donor–recipient relations have only attracted the attention of authors interested in cultural hegemony and those contributing to the recent historiography of IR. Among the latter, some have studied how during the Cold War the Rockefeller Foundation attempted to buttress classical realism in the United States and Western Europe. This article connects and moves forward IR historiography and the global IR literature by shedding light on philanthropic foundations’ attempts to further a specific IR theory—classical realism—and area studies in the global south. The article argues that world politics influenced global IR, but this influence was mediated by highly contingent events. Even a proximate cause like science patronage, let alone “world politics,” is not a sufficient cause capable of determining IR theories and disciplinary boundaries. Donors may achieve some impact but only under specific circumstances such as the ones explored here, that is, the donor is a unitary actor determined to advance its agenda by resorting to conditionality, alternative donors and funding are scarce, the discipline is either poorly or not institutionalized, and the recipient perceives the donor's preferences as legitimate. The article uses previously untapped, fine-grained, primary sources to unravel philanthropy's impact on Latin America's first IR center. Because science patronage is exposed to many sources of indeterminacy and to contingency, donors cannot determine scholarship, which makes cultural hegemony all but impossible. Still, IR scholars need to study their patrons to understand their discipline, in and outside Europe and the United States.

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全球 IR 的冷战起源。洛克菲勒基金会与拉丁美洲的现实主义

有关全球国际关系 (IR) 的文献认为，该学科是在世界政治的脚步中发展起来的，但没有持续关注更直接的原因，例如为国际关系教学和奖学金支付费用的资助者。这些捐赠者-接受者的关系只引起了对文化霸权感兴趣的作者和那些为最近的国际关系史学做出贡献的作者的注意。在后者中，有些人研究了冷战期间洛克菲勒基金会如何试图支持美国和西欧的古典现实主义。本文通过阐明慈善基金会推动特定国际关系理论（经典现实主义）和全球南方地区研究的尝试，将国际关系史学和全球国际关系文献联系起来并向前推进。文章认为，世界政治影响了全球国际关系，但这种影响是由高度偶然的事件介导的。即使是像科学赞助这样的直接原因，更不用说“世界政治”，也不是能够确定国际关系理论和学科界限的充分原因。捐助者可能会产生一些影响，但只有在特定情况下，例如此处探讨的情况，即捐助者是一个单一的行为者，决心通过附加条件来推进其议程，替代捐助者和资金稀缺，纪律要么差要么不制度化，并且接受者认为捐赠者的偏好是合法的。本文使用以前未开发的、细粒度的主要资源来揭示慈善事业对拉丁美洲第一个 IR 中心的影响。由于科学赞助面临许多不确定性和偶然性的来源，捐助者无法确定学术，这使得文化霸权几乎不可能。尽管如此，国际关系学者仍需要研究他们的赞助人以了解他们在欧洲和美国内外的学科。