Towards A New Christian Political Realism
The Amsterdam School of Philosophy and the Role of Religion in International Relations
Abstract
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR. The book discusses the resurgence of religion and how it has become ‘public’ in the world since around the 1960s. It extensively describes the role religion plays in Hans Morgenthau’s classical realism and Kenneth Waltz’s neorealism and how both thinkers are indebted to an Augustinian way of thinking that has influenced political realism through Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism. The book presents an alternative approach inspired by the Amsterdam School of Philosophy: a new Christian political realism. It incorporates the theological inspiration of political realism and the necessity of theorizing while doing justice to the relevance and manifold manifestations of religion in international relations. This book will be of interest to scholars and higher-level students of International Relations, the Amsterdam School of Philosophy, Classical Realism, Neorealism, Christian Realism, and Religious Studies, as well as practitioners working in the field of International Relations.
Keywords
Christian; Political; Realism; International Relations; IR; Amsterdam School; Religion; Globilization; Privatization; Secularization; Enlightenment; Materialism; Theology; Classical RealismDOI
10.4324/9781003462712ISBN
9781040103562, 9781040103593, 9781003462712, 9781032604527, 9781040103562Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
Oxford, 2025Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics,Classification
Political science and theory