Conversations with History: Anatole Lieven and John Hulsman

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Anatole Lieven of the New America Foundation and John Hulsman of the German Council on Foreign Relations for a discussion of their new book, Ethical Realism. They analyze the foreign policy debate in Washington, compare American leadership of Truman and Eisenhower with the leadership of Bush and Cheney, and drawing on the American tradition defined by George Kennan, Hans Morgenthau, and Reinhold Niebuhr, argue for a new foreign policy that combines ethics with realism. Series: "Conversations with History" [1/2007] [Show ID: 12087]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ethics
• America
• leadership

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This was an pretty interesting discussion. I have to wonder whether their philosophy of "Ethical Realism" isn't potentially just as idealistic and uptopian as the other contempories schools of political thought they've analyzed, but I'm intrigued by their arguments enough to go read their book.

I would say that their verdict of outrigt "failure" in Iraq was a tad premature, but hey, we all make mistakes. And in any case, it isn't over yet. The more discussion, the better...