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Obama’s Niebuhrian Moment (Part II)

Ronald E. Osborn

See also: Part One: I Face the World as It Is Must We Play Hardball? Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech can be read as a concise restatement...

Obama’s Niebuhrian Moment (Part I)

Ronald E. Osborn

“I Face the World as It Is” In his December 10, 2009, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, President Barack Obama offered a vigorous defense of the just war tradition...