Realist strategies of republican peace: Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and the politics of patriotic dissent

In: The Palgrave Macmillan history of international thought series

Abstract

This book's central claim is that Niebuhr and Morgenthau may be read as heirs to a particularly American republicanism, whose ideal of patriotism as 'embedded dissent' is a powerful and much-needed corrective to contemporary vocabularies of international justice, legitimacy, and restraint on both the left and the right.