The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr A Pragmatic Approach to Just War
Description
Reinhold Niebuhr rose to prominence 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.
1997Book
Author(s)Colm McKeogh
PublisherMacmillan Press
ISBN9780333681848
LanguageEnglish
