Ethical Realism: A Vision For America's Role In The World

By: Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman

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Synopsis: Lieven (a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation) and Hulshman (a former senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations) propose to steer American foreign policy away from the contradictory directions of hard-line realism and utopian morality and towards an "ethical realism" that incorporates moral thinking into classical realist concerns of national interests. They link this concept, influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and George Kennan, with the concept of the "Great Capitalist Peace," which accommodates other great powers in an effort to make stakeholders of much of the world. After expanding upon their twin concepts they describe how they should be applied to the Iraq War (e. g. establish a US-sponsored regional concert to prevent civil war) and confrontations with Iran and Korea, among other foreign policy flashpoints. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)