Christoph Rohde – författare

Hans J. Morgenthau wird in den USA zu den großen Intellektuellen des Landes gezählt. Um so erstaunlicher ist die Tatsache, dass sein umfassendes Werk in Deutschland in nur fragmentarischer Weise rezipiert wurde. Der 1904 in Coburg geborene Jude konzipierte die erste als solche anerkannte systematische Theorie der internationalen Politik, die zu Beginn des Kalten Krieges weltweiten Einfluss erlangte. Obwohl Morgenthau auf vorwissenschaftliche anthropologische Grundannahmen zurückgreift, erweisen sich seine historisch-empirischen Analysen der Weltpolitik, basierend auf dem Theorem des Mächtegleichgewichts, als oftmals zutreffend. Auch der Beobachter der Weltpolitik der Gegenwart kann von der Kenntnis des Politischen Realismus Morgenthaus profitieren.

This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism. Although his overall notion was thoroughly analyzed in different disciplines and respects, this specific focus can be diagnosed as a lacuna. The task of this book is to develop a hypothesis in terms of under what political, social, organizational or intellectual context Niebuhr made use of what definition of the state. When did he support the extension of state power (e. g. in war times, during economic crisis) and when did he criticize tendencies toward autocratic structures inside Western style democracies?

This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr''s understanding of the state in his Christian Realism. Although his overall notion was thoroughly analyzed in different disciplines and respects, this specific focus can be diagnosed as a lacuna. The task of this book is to develop a hypothesis in terms of under what political, social, organizational or intellectual context Niebuhr made use of what definition of the state. When did he support the extension of state power (e. g. in war times, during economic crisis) and when did he criticize tendencies toward autocratic structures inside Western style democracies?