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Richard Ned Lebow - The Tragic Vision of Politics, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

The Tragic Vision of Politics

Ethics, Interests and Orders

Av Richard Ned Lebow

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Is it possible to preserve national security through ethical policies? Richard Ned Lebow seeks to show that ethics are actually essential to the national interest. Recapturing the wisdom of classical realism through a close reading of the texts of Thucydides, Clausewitz and Hans Morgenthau, Lebow argues that, unlike many modern realists, classic realists saw close links between domestic and international politics, and between interests and ethics. Lebow uses this analysis to offer a powerful critique of post-Cold War American foreign policy. He also develops an ontological foundation for ethics and makes the case for an alternate ontology for social science based on Greek tragedy's understanding of life and politics. This is a topical and accessible book, written by a leading scholar in the field.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2003-10-30
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
  • Vikt: 790 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 424
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521827539
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Richard Ned Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author, co-author or editor of over eighteen books, many of them about international conflict and its management. He is currently President of the International Society of Political Psychology.

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'This is an important book. Brilliantly conceived and argued, Lebow analyzes in the original the texts of three 'classical' realists - Thucydides, Clausewitz and Morgenthau - to argue for a more humanistic and compassionate American foreign policy. Ethical behavior and justice, he argues, are not incompatible with Realpolitik. Fragmentation and compartmentalization have built a firewall between the humanities and social sciences. Lebow calls for a balance, a synthesis. He may, in his own words, be like a 'salmon swimming upstream', but in his case, the journey is worth the effort.' Holger H. Herwig, University of Calgary

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