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020 _a0333681843 (hbk.)
100 1 _aMCKEOGH Colm
245 0 _aPolitical realism of Reinhold Niebuhr:
_ba pragmatic approach to just war
260 _aBasingstoke:
_bMacmillan,
_c1997
300 _a180p.
520 3 _aReinhold Niebuhr rose to prominence in the 1930s and 1940s for his opposition to Nazism and to isolationism.He rejected pacifism and the legalism of the Just War tradition.This work examines the merits and pitfalls of Niebuhr's ethical approach to war and contrasts it to traditional 'bellum justum'.
650 _aCHRISTIANITY
650 _aETHICS
650 _aJUST WAR
650 _aPOLITICAL THEORY
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