James Rowell

Since 1948, every flare-up of the Israel-Arab conflict has produced a worse situation for the Palestinians. Only a lasting peace settlement that acknowledges Israel’s right to exist can stop the cycle.

How many nuclear weapons ought to exist? Zero? Dozens? Hundreds? Counter-intuitive as it is, the world is safer when the great powers of the world are held back by mutually assured destruction

Christian realists must hold in tension that justice requires returning Ukraine to its pre-invasion borders, but that this may prove to be impossible

Although MLK and Gandhi had much to disagree about with famed Christian realist Reinhold Niebuhr, their similarities are in some ways more pronounced than their differences

Milton Friedman, though greatly enamored with Adam Smith, misrepresented Smith’s concept of self-interest

Within both Christianity and Islam there are theological disputes around when the use of military force is permitted

Is there a version of Islam recognizable to most Muslims that ethically bears resemblance to the principles of Christian Realism? 

The story of democracy’s failure to take root in Afghanistan is directly related to its failure in Pakistan

The novel Starship Troopers (1959) remains a classic of realist political philosophy in the democratic tradition

Ghandi and Niebuhr both believed in the power of religion to shape societies and history