Towards A New Christian Political Realism

The Amsterdam School of Philosophy and the Role of Religion in International Relations
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-60452-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR.

The book discusses the resurgence of religion and how it has become ‘public’ in the world since around the 1960s. It extensively describes the role religion plays in Hans Morgenthau’s classical realism and Kenneth Waltz’s neorealism and how both thinkers are indebted to an Augustinian way of thinking that has influenced political realism through Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism. The book presents an alternative approach inspired by the Amsterdam School of Philosophy: a new Christian political realism. It incorporates the theological inspiration of political realism and the necessity of theorizing while doing justice to the relevance and manifold manifestations of religion in international relations.

This book will be of interest to scholars and higher-level students of International Relations, the Amsterdam School of Philosophy, Classical Realism, Neorealism, Christian Realism, and Religious Studies, as well as practitioners working in the field of International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polinder, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction. Towards a New Paradigm on Religion and IR?  2. A Global Resurgence of Religion   3. Religion is Virtually Everywhere  4. The ‘Religion-Blindness’ of the Old Paradigm: The Dominance of the Westphalian System  5. The Dominance of Naturalism in the Genesis of the Old Paradigm  6. Religion in Morgenthau’s Classical Realism: ‘It is the Theology’ 7. An Assessment of the Religion Scholars' Claim: Morgenthau's Classical Realism  8. Religion in Waltz’s Neorealism: ‘It is the Theory’ 9. An Assessment of the Religionists’ Claim: Waltz’s Neo-Realism  10. Evaluation of the Debate between the Religionists and Political Realists and a New Christian Realism as Promising Perspective

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Polinder is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of International Relations at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is associated with the project Reimagining Religion, Security and Social Transformation. His research is on religious leaders and their response to violent extremism in Kenya and Nigeria. He is the co-editor of the volume Christian Faith, Philosophy and International Relations: The Lamb and the Wolf (2019). His dissertation received an Honorable Mention for the Mark Juergensmeyer Best Dissertation Award 2023.