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Informationen zum Autor Guilherme Marques Pedro holds a PhD from the Department of International Politics in Aberystwyth. His research interests lie in international relations theory, political thought and international law. He is a researcher in philosophy of law at Uppsala University, Sweden. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. Klappentext This is the first book in international relations theory devoted exclusively to the political thought of Reinhold Niebuhr. Zusammenfassung This is the first book in international relations theory devoted exclusively to the political thought of Reinhold Niebuhr. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction I – ´The father of us all’: the making of Christian Realist 1.1. Who was Reinhold Niebuhr? 1.2. Wilsonian Temptations II – Against the Pagans: christian realism as a critique of political idolatry 2.1. False Gods 2.2. God Reborn III – Fear God: human nature redefined 3.1. The Hobbesian ‘natural’ revolution: fear death, not God 3.2. In perpetual solicitude of the time to come IV – The Existential Turn in the Realist Tradition: Niebuhr’s political ‘ontology of possibility’ 4.1. The ‘will-to-power’: International Politics beyond Survival 4.2. Anxiety and the ‘Realism of distance’ V – The Anarchical Community or the impossible possibilities of a fallen world 5.1. Anarchy and the normative foundations of the realist tradition 5.2. The world community or ‘The Kingdom not of this world’ Epilogue: Jusnaturalism for Postmodern times? The Poverty of IR’s Liberal-Realist Consensus
