This book's central claim is that Niebuhr and Morgenthau may be read as heirs to a particularly American republicanism, whose ideal of patriotism as "embedded dissent" is a powerful and much-needed corrective to contemporary vocabularies of international justice, legitimacy, and restraint on both the left and the right.

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Vibeke Schou Tjalve is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Military Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Acknowledgements Prologue: A Note on Jeremiads and Jeremiahs Introduction. Beyond Just War or Democratic Peace Part I. Intellectual Trajectories One Puritan Ambiguities: America as Destiny or Design? Two The Puritan Legacy in Modern America Part II. Strategic Developments Three Reinhold Niebuhr: A Realist Ethics Between Responsibility and Humility Four Morgenthau: The Realist Polity Between Purpose and Dissent Part III. Political Implications Five Beyond Just War: Realism, Republicanism and the Politics of Patriotism as Dissent Epilogue: What the Left Might Learn From the American Jeremiad