Guilherme Marques Pedro

Reinhold Niebuhr and International Relations Theory (eBook, PDF)

Realism beyond Thomas Hobbes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book in international relations theory devoted exclusively to the political thought of Reinhold Niebuhr.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351722742
• Artikelnr.: 48960292

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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