The central assertion of this book is that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity
needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. Three forms of social …

Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most powerful political
theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly …

In fields such as politics, international relations, public administration and international law,
there is a rapidly growing interest in the topic of 'accountability'. In this innovative new work …

Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to
rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America. This book …

Abstract The United States, Richard Hofstadter once remarked, is a country that has the
misfortune not to have an ideology but to be one. In this article, an amendment to …

This volume picks up a rather uninvested field of international relations theory: the influence
of religion on Realism as well as the power of Realism to address religious issues in world …

This book seeks to determine what is meant by'evil'when used to describe actors and events
in international politics. Focusing on the history of evil in western secular and religious …

summary Even though America was founded upon a belief that its mission was
providentially ordained, its foreign policy decisions have failed to recognize the growing …

This article seeks to move the debate about political evil within normative international
theory into the realm of global poverty, through the work of Hannah Arendt. To that end, the …

This article examines how evil has been conceptualised in the discipline of international
relations and contributes to a body of critical literature that treats evil as a legitimacy …