The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders

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Cambridge University Press, 30‏/10‏/2003 - 405 من الصفحات
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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Nixon in hell
1
Tragedy and politics
14
Thucydides and war
65
Thucydides and civilization
115
Carl von Clausewitz
168
Hans J Morgenthau
216
The wisdom of classical realism
257
Running red lights and ruling the world
310
Tragedy and scholarship
360
Name index
393
Subject index
399
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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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