Realist Strategies of Republican Peace: Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and the Politics of Patriotic Dissent [Hardcover]

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.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 JeremiadVibeke Schou Tjalve is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Military Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.