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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Campbell Craig. Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz. New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 191. $34.50.

Campbell Craig calls his book "an historical account of Realist theoretical analysis and the problem of nuclear war, not a new work of theory" (p. xii). He sells himself short. If not exactly a novel contribution to international relations theory, this book is more than a mere history. Craig has written previously on nuclear war as conceived by policy makers (Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War [1998]); now he deals with nuclear war as imagined by intellectuals. He chooses three for close study: Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and Kenneth Waltz. "My criterion was, above all, influence," Craig says (p. xiv). He will not get much argument regarding Niebuhr, the Protestant theologian who became the conscience of American Cold War liberalism, or Morgenthau, the University of Chicago political scientist who made realism respectable in the academy. Waltz is a closer call, having no such heft as Niebuhr or Morgenthau as a public intellectual. Yet if Craig has to choose three representatives of postwar realism (he candidly acknowledges as his model Richard Hofstadter's study of the three Progressive historians Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard, and Vernon L. Parrington), he could do worse than Waltz.

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