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The Tragic Vision of Politics

Ethics, Interests and Orders

  • Paperback
  • 424 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.5 x 22.8 x 2.6 cm

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For students and scholars of political ethics

Challenges modern views on ethics in politics

You will gain insights into ethical foreign policy debates

This book explores the vital connection between ethics and national security in politics.

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 politics, and between interests and ethics. Lebow uses this analysis to offer a powerful critique of post-Cold War American foreign policy. He also develops an ontological foundation for ethics and makes the case for an alternate ontology for social science based on Greek tragedy's understanding of life and politics. This is a topical and accessible book, written by a leading scholar in the field.
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  • Title

    The Tragic Vision of Politics

  • Author

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    October 2003

  • Weight

    622g

  • Page Count

    424

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 22.8 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521534857

  • ISBN-10

    0521534852

  • Eden Code

    4575197

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