The Holy See's recent encyclical is as much about foreign policy as it is about theology ...

“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints,” wrote C.S. Lewis. Catholic Political Realism is a realism about Catholicism’s inherent ...

Political theory and normative realism constitutes an approach to normative enquiry that insists on the centrality of real‐world political phenomena in the justification of political principles.

In recent days, Ukraine won a stunning victory in the Kharkiv region. In the face of a well-organized Ukrainian offensive, routed Russian forces have been defeated in detail, not only fleeing the ...

Drawing on their new book, Hopeful Realism, Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson lay out an Augustinian and evangelical theory of the natural law and show how it can be employed within ...

International Relations explores the relations between the state, the international system, and other factors in an ...

Neoclassical realism represents an adaptive framework within international relations theory that integrates the structural insights of neorealism with key domestic variables to explain state behaviour ...

In my weekly column for World Politics Review, I argue it is time to embrace a new approach to world politics that deals with what may be humanity’s gravest existential challenge: preserving the ...