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Description

1. xi, 254 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. In this first-ever anthology of his most important work, Lefever takes a bold and lively march through the second half of the twentieth century. As an acute participant-observer who cares deeply about peace, freedom, and human dignity, Lefever became a neoconservative twenty years before Irving Kristol coined the term. For this volume, Lefever selected forty of his most influential essays from some 500 published pieces.
2. They reveal his dramatic transformation from a liberal pacifist during World War II to a human realist.

Subject

1. Political ethics
2. International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
3. United States > Foreign relations > Moral and ethical aspects

Contents

1. Foreword / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- An Autobiographical Sketch -- Pt. 1. Utopian Beginnings. 1. One God, One World, One Blood. 2. Sit-In at a Chicago Restaurant. 3. Conscience Behind Bars. 4. Barbed Wire, Sand, and Tears. 5. The UN Meets in London -- Pt. 2. Toward a Realistic Ethic. 6. Moral Consistency and Political Clarity. 7. Religion and Communism in Hungary. 8. Ethics and World Politics. 9. Moralism and U.S. Foreign Policy. 10. Reinhold Niebuhr's Enduring Legacy -- Pt. 3. Christianity and World Politics. 11. The World Council of Churches. 12. An Absence of Moral Seriousness. 13. A Dangerous Political Activism. 14. Redeeming the Third World. 15. Reckless Rhetoric and Foreign Policy -- Pt. 4. The Evil Empire. 16. New Gods for Old. 17. Religious Repression in Russia. 18. Detente, the KGB, and Solzhenitsyn. 19. Hobnailed Boots Have No Ideology -- Pt. 5. The Apocalyptic Premise. 20. Ethics, Calculation, and Nuclear Arms. 21. Can Nuclear War Be Just?
2. 22. Arms Control vs. Disarmament. 23. ABM Is a Shield, Not a Sword. 24. The Elite Press and the Present Danger. 25. Moral Symmetry and Nuclear Arms -- Pt. 6. Third World Battleground. 26. Five Myths About the Third World. 27. Hypocrisy of Neutralism. 28. America's Uncertain Military Burden. 29. State-Building in Tropical Africa. 30. The Cambodian Bloodbath. 31. Trivializing Human Rights. 32. Central America Under Siege -- Pt. 7. The Neo-Wilsonians. 33. The UN Cannot Prevent War. 34. Limits of UN Crisis Intervention. 35. The Illusion of Internationalizing Politics. 36. Is the United Nations Obsolete? 37. Perilous Crusades -- Pt. 8. The God That Failed. 38. Treason of the Intellectuals. 39. How New Is the New World Order? 40. Reassessing Vietnam's Legacy. Epilogue: The Last Days of Rome?

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Includes index.