Christian Realism and Utopian Multilateralism

Patterson, Eric D.

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“…2The term “realism” here covers a great variety of positions within political theory and international relations. These range from a Christian type of realism, perhaps most famously embodied by Reinhold Niebuhr (see Lovin 1995; 2008; Patterson 2008) to more political types, emblematically expressed through the work of Hans Morgenthau (see Scheuerman 2009; Williams 2007). What unites these positions is the notion that pacifism disregards the importance of power relations and stable orders in both domestic and international politics.…”

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Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

Thaler¹

2019

Perspect. polit.

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A common complaint about pacifism holds that it is utopian, in a pejorative sense. The worry can take various forms and directions, but when it is couched in terms of just war theory it usually includes accusations of pacifism’s immorality, inconsistency and impracticality. Contemporary defenders of pacifism have responded to this complaint by delineating a highly sophisticated, empirically informed account of pacifism that foregrounds its real-world effectiveness. This article takes a different route to vindicating pacifism via a more nuanced picture of what is specifically utopian about it. I propose that peace, in at least some of its guises, can be described as a minor, grounded utopia; it is a desire for an alternative future without war and violence, whose pursuit blurs the boundaries between thought and action. Reconstructing both prefiguration and testimony as practical modes of this kind of pacifism, I maintain that minor, grounded utopias are sites rife with conflict and contestation.

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Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

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2019

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Christian Realism and Utopian Multilateralism

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Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

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