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The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr

A Pragmatic Approach to Just War

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Colm McKeogh

    1. Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 1-18

  3. Niebuhr’s Critique of Pacifism

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 19-37

  4. Force and Order

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 38-53

  5. Freedom and Constraint

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 54-70

  6. Morality and the State: Just War

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 71-94

  7. Morality and the State: Niebuhr

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 95-120

  8. Niebuhr’s Ethic of International Politics

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 121-140

  9. Conclusion

    • Colm McKeogh
    Pages 141-153

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 154-180
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Reinhold Niebuhr rose to prominenece in the 1930s and 1940s for his vociferous opposition both to Nazism and to isolationism as an American response to that threat. He rejected both pacifism and the legalism of the just war tradition. His pragmatic and realist approach to the ethics of force eschews absolute rules or restrictions. The work examines Niebuhr's consequentialist approach to ethics and war from the perspective of political theory.

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  • Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Colm McKeogh

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