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Idealism without illusions
- Title
- Idealism without illusions / George Weigel.
- Author
- Weigel, George.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Ethics and Public Policy Center ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1994.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 95-10311 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 253 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Subtitle on cover: U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : breaking the realist/idealist logjam -- pt. I. The past is prologue. The revolution of 1989 and the restoration of history -- Death of a heresy : the new Russian revolution -- Who won the Cold War? How? So what? -- Settling accounts : a post-communist political and moral reckoning -- pt. II. The elements of strategy. Lessons from the fifty-five years' war : ideas, passions, and history -- Beyond moralism and realpolitik : notes toward redefining "America's purpose" -- The new colonialism, and other political incorrectness -- Why the new isolationists are wrong -- pt. III. The world and us - five issues. Just war after the Gulf War -- "Humanitarian intervention" : history, strategy, and morality in the Bosnian crisis -- Waiting for Augustine : Islam and the West -- After the Twin Towers attack : terrorism in America -- The new human-rights debate -- Afterword : the responsible superpower.
- Call Number
- JFE 95-10311
- ISBN
- 0802807461
- LCCN
- 94198287
- OCLC
- 30706363
- Author
- Weigel, George.
- Title
- Idealism without illusions / George Weigel.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : Ethics and Public Policy Center ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1994.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 95-10311