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The irony of virtue : ethics and American power

Title
The irony of virtue : ethics and American power / Ernest W. Lefever ; foreword by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Author
Lefever, Ernest W.
Publication
Boulder : Westview Press, 1998.

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xi, 254 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • In this first-ever anthology of his most important work, Lefever takes a bold and lively march through the second half of the twentieth century. As an acute participant-observer who cares deeply about peace, freedom, and human dignity, Lefever became a neoconservative twenty years before Irving Kristol coined the term. For this volume, Lefever selected forty of his most influential essays from some 500 published pieces.
  • They reveal his dramatic transformation from a liberal pacifist during World War II to a human realist.
Subject
  • International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Political ethics
  • United States > Moral and ethical aspects
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
  • Foreword / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- An Autobiographical Sketch -- Pt. 1. Utopian Beginnings. 1. One God, One World, One Blood. 2. Sit-In at a Chicago Restaurant. 3. Conscience Behind Bars. 4. Barbed Wire, Sand, and Tears. 5. The UN Meets in London -- Pt. 2. Toward a Realistic Ethic. 6. Moral Consistency and Political Clarity. 7. Religion and Communism in Hungary. 8. Ethics and World Politics. 9. Moralism and U.S. Foreign Policy. 10. Reinhold Niebuhr's Enduring Legacy -- Pt. 3. Christianity and World Politics. 11. The World Council of Churches. 12. An Absence of Moral Seriousness. 13. A Dangerous Political Activism. 14. Redeeming the Third World. 15. Reckless Rhetoric and Foreign Policy -- Pt. 4. The Evil Empire. 16. New Gods for Old. 17. Religious Repression in Russia. 18. Detente, the KGB, and Solzhenitsyn. 19. Hobnailed Boots Have No Ideology -- Pt. 5. The Apocalyptic Premise. 20. Ethics, Calculation, and Nuclear Arms. 21. Can Nuclear War Be Just?
  • 22. Arms Control vs. Disarmament. 23. ABM Is a Shield, Not a Sword. 24. The Elite Press and the Present Danger. 25. Moral Symmetry and Nuclear Arms -- Pt. 6. Third World Battleground. 26. Five Myths About the Third World. 27. Hypocrisy of Neutralism. 28. America's Uncertain Military Burden. 29. State-Building in Tropical Africa. 30. The Cambodian Bloodbath. 31. Trivializing Human Rights. 32. Central America Under Siege -- Pt. 7. The Neo-Wilsonians. 33. The UN Cannot Prevent War. 34. Limits of UN Crisis Intervention. 35. The Illusion of Internationalizing Politics. 36. Is the United Nations Obsolete? 37. Perilous Crusades -- Pt. 8. The God That Failed. 38. Treason of the Intellectuals. 39. How New Is the New World Order? 40. Reassessing Vietnam's Legacy. Epilogue: The Last Days of Rome?
ISBN
0813368812 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
97040895
OCLC
  • 37742328
  • ocm37742328
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries