 | Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz Subjects: Nuclear warfare -- Moral and eithical aspects; Realism -- Political aspects; Niebuhr Reinhold 1892–1971; Morgenthau Hans Joachim 1904–; Waltz Kenneth Neal 1924–; World politics -- 20th century; The Second World War put an end to America's historical isolationism. Three American thinkers--Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and Kenneth Waltz--developed a modern strategic framework that sought to introduce Americans to the harsher realities of international politics. Yet even as the United States began to embrace this new Realism, atomic weaponry threatened to make it absurd. This engrossing story of how the three chief architects of a powerful ideology struggled with the implications of their own creation offers crucial context for contemporary debates about the resort to war and weapons of mass destruction. Campbell Craig is professor of international relations at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is now in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southampton |
