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Informationen zum Autor Vibeke Schou Tjalve is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Military Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark. Klappentext This book's central claim is that Niebuhr and Morgenthau may be read as heirs to a particularly American republicanism! whose ideal of patriotism as "embedded dissent" is a powerful and much-needed corrective to contemporary vocabularies of international justice! legitimacy! and restraint on both the left and the right. Zusammenfassung This book's central claim is that Niebuhr and Morgenthau may be read as heirs to a particularly American republicanism, whose ideal of patriotism as "embedded dissent" is a powerful and much-needed corrective to contemporary vocabularies of international justice, legitimacy, and restraint on both the left and the right. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Prologue: A Note on Jeremiads and Jeremiahs Introduction. Beyond Just War or Democratic Peace Part I. Intellectual Trajectories One Puritan Ambiguities: America as Destiny or Design? Two The Puritan Legacy in Modern America Part II. Strategic Developments Three Reinhold Niebuhr: A Realist Ethics Between Responsibility and Humility Four Morgenthau: The Realist Polity Between Purpose and Dissent Part III. Political Implications Five Beyond Just War: Realism, Republicanism and the Politics of Patriotism as Dissent Epilogue: What the Left Might Learn From the American Jeremiad
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Acknowledgements Prologue: A Note on Jeremiads and Jeremiahs Introduction. Beyond Just War or Democratic Peace Part I. Intellectual Trajectories One Puritan Ambiguities: America as Destiny or Design? Two The Puritan Legacy in Modern America Part II. Strategic Developments Three Reinhold Niebuhr: A Realist Ethics Between Responsibility and Humility Four Morgenthau: The Realist Polity Between Purpose and Dissent Part III. Political Implications Five Beyond Just War: Realism, Republicanism and the Politics of Patriotism as Dissent Epilogue: What the Left Might Learn From the American Jeremiad