Autorentext

Simon Polinder is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of International Relations at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is associated with the project Reimagining Religion, Security and Social Transformation. His research is on religious leaders and their response to violent extremism in Kenya and Nigeria. He is the co-editor of the volume Christian Faith, Philosophy and International Relations: The Lamb and the Wolf (2019). His dissertation received an Honorable Mention for the Mark Juergensmeyer Best Dissertation Award 2023.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction. Towards a New Paradigm on Religion and IR? 3. Religion is Virtually Everywhere 5. The Dominance of Naturalism in the Genesis of the Old Paradigm Religion in Morgenthau's Classical Realism: 'It is the Theology' 7. An Assessment of the Religion Scholars' Claim: Morgenthau's Classical Realism 8. Religion in Waltz's Neorealism:'It is the Theory' An Assessment of the Religionists' Claim: Waltz's Neo-Realism Evaluation of the Debate between the Religionists and Political Realists and a New Christian Realism as Promising Perspective