Christianity and Power Politics Today: Christian Realism and Contemporary Political Dilemmas

ISBN-13: 9780230602649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 187 str.

Eric D. Patterson

Opis

This volume aims to reconstruct and debate a contemporary Christian realist framework, while also applying such a perspective to the issues of contemporary politics such as the Bush Doctrine, the laws of war, democracy and democratization, U.S. participation in international institutions, and apocalyptic terrorism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Christian Realism and Power Politics; E.Patterson Reconceptualizing the Meaning of Christian Realism for the 21st Century; A.Coll Christian Realism and Just War Theory: A Critique; K.Pavlischek Christian Political Realism and the Inherent Contradictions of American Liberalism; P.A.Lawler Christian Realism and the Ethics of Contemporary Warfare; C.A.Jones Christian Realism and the Bush Doctrine; M.Amstutz The Fog of Peace: Utopianism, Realism, and Radical Islam; J.Loconte Christian Realism, the English School, and the Practice of Foreign Policy; A.Watson International Institutions and Christian Realism: Is Multilateralism Moral?; D.Young Christian Realism and Human Rights: Reconsidering the Moral Basis and Political Defense of Global Human Rights; E.Patterson

O autorze

ERIC PATTERSON is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vanguard University, USA.