Reinhold Niebuhr and the Use of Force
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Use of Force
This chapter considers the issues in relation to humanitarian interventions, arguing that moral compassion without a sense of the political realities can be disastrous. It also looks at Niebuhr's ethical realism in relation to the Just War tradition.
Keywords: Reinhold Niebuhr, humanitarian intervention, moral compassion, ethical realism, just war
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