1st Edition
Reinhold Niebuhr and International Relations Theory Realism beyond Thomas Hobbes
General Introduction
I – ´The father of us all’: the making of Christian Realist
1.1. Who was Reinhold Niebuhr?
1.2. Wilsonian Temptations
II – Against the Pagans: christian realism as a critique of political idolatry
2.1. False Gods
2.2. God Reborn
III – Fear God: human nature redefined
3.1. The Hobbesian ‘natural’ revolution: fear death, not God
3.2. In perpetual solicitude of the time to come
IV – The Existential Turn in the Realist Tradition: Niebuhr’s political ‘ontology of possibility’
4.1. The ‘will-to-power’: International Politics beyond Survival
4.2. Anxiety and the ‘Realism of distance’
V – The Anarchical Community or the impossible possibilities of a fallen world
5.1. Anarchy and the normative foundations of the realist tradition
5.2. The world community or ‘The Kingdom not of this world’
Epilogue: Jusnaturalism for Postmodern times? The Poverty of IR’s Liberal-Realist Consensus
Biography
Guilherme Marques Pedro holds a PhD from the Department of International Politics in Aberystwyth. His research interests lie in international relations theory, political thought and international law. He is a researcher in philosophy of law at Uppsala University, Sweden. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal.
