Realist Strategies of Republican Peace - Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and the Politics of Patriotic Dissent

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

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• Authors: V Tjalve, V. Tjalve, Vibeke Schou Tjalve, TJALVE VIBEKE SCHOU
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2008
• EAN: 9780230602175
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60217-5
• No. of pages: 189
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought; Palgrave MacMillan History of; Palgrave MacMillan History of; The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; B, History: specific events & topics, Europe, European Politics, Political Science, Political Theory, Political science & theory, Political History, World Politics, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Europe—Politics and government, development;ethics;politics;realism;war