RT Article
T1 Kant, Kissinger, and Other Lutherans: On Ethics and International Relations
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 20
IS 1
SP 13
OP 29
A1 Andersen, Svend 1948-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776581830
AB Many people alive today grew up during the so-called Cold War and even more experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Cold War can be taken as the name of the order of international relations during four decades of the twentieth century. In the following, I want first to comment on the concept of world order and the related one of institution (law). Then I shall deal with the relation between these concepts and various schools in international politics. Next, I will pay attention to the ethical dimensions of those schools. And finally, I want to reflect on the place of theology in the ethics of international relations. My thesis is (1) that theological ethics has an important role to play in understanding contemporary international politics (IP); (2) that if theological ethics takes a Lutheran starting point, it will endorse elements both in the liberal and the realist tradition of international relations theory. As I regard Kant and Kissinger as representatives of the two schools, I hope that explains my somewhat provocative title.
K1 Two Kingdoms
K1 Religion And Politics
K1 Realism
K1 Political Theology
K1 perpetual peace
K1 Liberalism
DO 10.1177/0953946806075485