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UNINA9910457918203321 |
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Autore |
Lebow Richard Ned |
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Titolo |
The tragic vision of politics : ethics, interests, and orders / / Richard Ned Lebow [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
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1-107-13830-2 |
1-280-42161-4 |
9786610421619 |
0-511-20445-0 |
0-511-18035-7 |
0-511-06272-9 |
0-511-30730-6 |
0-511-49150-6 |
0-511-07118-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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National security - Moral and ethical aspects |
International relations - Moral and ethical aspects |
Realism - Political aspects |
United States Foreign relations 1989- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 1. Nixon in hell -- ; 2. Tragedy and politics -- ; 3. Thucydides and war -- ; 4. Thucydides and civilization -- ; 5. Carl von Clausewitz -- ; 6. Hans J. Morgenthau -- ; 7. The wisdom of classical realism -- ; 8. Running red lights and ruling the world -- ; 9. Tragedy and scholarship. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Is it possible to preserve national security through ethical policies? Richard Ned Lebow seeks to show that ethics are actually essential to the national interest. Recapturing the wisdom of classical realism through a close reading of the texts of Thucydides, Clausewitz and Hans Morgenthau, Lebow argues that, unlike many modern realists, classic realists saw close links between domestic and international |
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