Douglas B Klusmeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2201178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas B Klusmeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas B |
| FAMILY NAME | Klusmeyer |
| SIGNATURE | KLUSMEYER D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Constructing a Corruption Principle
Citizens United has stimulated a cottage industry of legal scholarship on corruption. A prominent stream of this literature is self-consciously atheoretical and suggests that the current state of corruption jurisprudence suffers from a misconceived reliance on liberal political theories and a rejection of the public good. We argue that it is impossible to understand specific acts of corruption without a political theory explaining why such action…
Justifying Official Disobedience
Do government officials, who have taken an affirmative oath to uphold the constitution, have any legitimate claim to disobey the law? We argue that they do. Indeed, the nature of law itself requires officials to have some mechanism to enforce the secondary rules or if one prefers, the associative obligations, upon which their authority is based. When institutional structures and official behavior makes it impossible for officials to subordinate g…
Death of the Statesman as Tragic Hero
In Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (1946), Hans Morgenthau celebrated the noble role of the statesman, whose tragic destiny entailed accepting the agonizing moral burden of committing lesser evils as the inescapable price for securing the greater good. In this elitist vision, the statesman is primarily accountable to personal conscience rather than to the poorly informed, undisciplined judgment of any democratic electorate. In focusing on the s…
The American Republic, Executive Power and the National Security State
There is nothing new or even faintly original in the neoconservative foreign policy vision. It simply recycles the old national security ideology for a post-Cold War era. Consistent with this ideological agenda, conservatives have also been advancing the case for the strong executive who operates above the law. In championing the principle of the strong executive, they are seeking to re-define the meaning of modern republicanism around this princ…
Contesting Thucydides' Legacy
Post-war realists of every stripe have long sought to bolster the intellectual pedigree of their visions of international politics by claiming to be heirs of Thucydides. Hans Morgenthau invokes Thucydides to identify his own brand of realism with the timeless wisdom of a long tradition in Western political thought against the shallow modern conceits of contemporary liberal idealists. Using Arendt's and Morgenthau's treatments of imperialism as a …
Hannah Arendt's Case for Federalism
Hannah Arendt developed an acute defense of Republican Federalism as an alternative to the prevailing model of state sovereignty. However, the literature on the history of federalist ideas has long neglected her contributions, despite her continuing reputation as one of post-World War II's premier political theorists. One reason for this neglect is that her contributions are scattered across a broad array of different works. This article seeks to…
Hans Morgenthau and Republicanism
Recent scholarship has called attention to the republican dimension of Hans Morgenthau's approach to politics in the postwar era, but the role republicanism played in his thought remains ambiguous. This essay examines that role, and explores its tensions with other aspects of his understanding of politics. It argues that he expanded and deepened his approach to politics as he developed a republican critique of American domestic politics. However,…
Beyond Tragedy
Hans Morgenthau claimed that a tragic perspective enables us to confront more squarely the harsh realities of politics, the evil aspects of human nature, and the ethical compromises action requires. Richard Lebow has more recently identified Morgenthau as an exemplar in making his own case for the “tragic vision.” This essay contrasts the sharp differences between Morgenthau's and Hannah Arendt's response to the Holocaust to challenge Morgenthau'…
Migrations, integration, discriminations
Two Cultures of Rights
Book Review| October 01 2003 Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany, Manfred Berg and Martin H. Geyer. Douglas Klusmeyer Douglas Klusmeyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 144–146. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501412 Cite Ic…
Comprehending “Evil”
In the aftermath of the attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, the categories of “good” and “evil” have come to dominate the rhetorical response of the U.S. government. This article investigates the implications of using the concept of “evil” as a major public policy rationale. The article focuses on the Bush Administration's attempts to frame its policy around this term in the current campaign against terrorism, but also considers r…
Plural Nationality
A 'guiding culture' for immigrants? Integration and diversity in Germany
The Christian Democratic Union's (CDU's) recent proposal for a national 'guiding culture' as the basis for immigrant integration has aroused considerable controversy in Germany. This paper examines the underlying assumptions and framework of this approach to integration. It argues that this approach rests on a Romantic understanding of culture that obscures fundamental internal differences within majority cultures and further marginalises minorit…
Hannah Arendt's Case for Federalism
Hannah Arendt developed an acute defense of Republican Federalism as an alternative to the prevailing model of state sovereignty. However, the literature on the history of federalist ideas has long neglected her contributions, despite her continuing reputation as one of post-World War II's premier political theorists. One reason for this neglect is that her contributions are scattered across a broad array of different works. This article seeks to…
Comprehending “Evil”
In the aftermath of the attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, the categories of “good” and “evil” have come to dominate the rhetorical response of the U.S. government. This article investigates the implications of using the concept of “evil” as a major public policy rationale. The article focuses on the Bush Administration's attempts to frame its policy around this term in the current campaign against terrorism, but also considers r…
Death of the Statesman as Tragic Hero
In Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (1946), Hans Morgenthau celebrated the noble role of the statesman, whose tragic destiny entailed accepting the agonizing moral burden of committing lesser evils as the inescapable price for securing the greater good. In this elitist vision, the statesman is primarily accountable to personal conscience rather than to the poorly informed, undisciplined judgment of any democratic electorate. In focusing on the s…
Beyond Tragedy
Hans Morgenthau claimed that a tragic perspective enables us to confront more squarely the harsh realities of politics, the evil aspects of human nature, and the ethical compromises action requires. Richard Lebow has more recently identified Morgenthau as an exemplar in making his own case for the “tragic vision.” This essay contrasts the sharp differences between Morgenthau's and Hannah Arendt's response to the Holocaust to challenge Morgenthau'…
The American Republic, Executive Power and the National Security State
There is nothing new or even faintly original in the neoconservative foreign policy vision. It simply recycles the old national security ideology for a post-Cold War era. Consistent with this ideological agenda, conservatives have also been advancing the case for the strong executive who operates above the law. In championing the principle of the strong executive, they are seeking to re-define the meaning of modern republicanism around this princ…
Plural Nationality
A 'guiding culture' for immigrants? Integration and diversity in Germany
The Christian Democratic Union's (CDU's) recent proposal for a national 'guiding culture' as the basis for immigrant integration has aroused considerable controversy in Germany. This paper examines the underlying assumptions and framework of this approach to integration. It argues that this approach rests on a Romantic understanding of culture that obscures fundamental internal differences within majority cultures and further marginalises minorit…
Comprehending “Evil”
In the aftermath of the attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, the categories of “good” and “evil” have come to dominate the rhetorical response of the U.S. government. This article investigates the implications of using the concept of “evil” as a major public policy rationale. The article focuses on the Bush Administration's attempts to frame its policy around this term in the current campaign against terrorism, but also considers r…
Two Cultures of Rights
Book Review| October 01 2003 Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany, Manfred Berg and Martin H. Geyer. Douglas Klusmeyer Douglas Klusmeyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 144–146. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501412 Cite Ic…
Migrations, integration, discriminations
Beyond Tragedy
Hans Morgenthau claimed that a tragic perspective enables us to confront more squarely the harsh realities of politics, the evil aspects of human nature, and the ethical compromises action requires. Richard Lebow has more recently identified Morgenthau as an exemplar in making his own case for the “tragic vision.” This essay contrasts the sharp differences between Morgenthau's and Hannah Arendt's response to the Holocaust to challenge Morgenthau'…
Hannah Arendt's Case for Federalism
Hannah Arendt developed an acute defense of Republican Federalism as an alternative to the prevailing model of state sovereignty. However, the literature on the history of federalist ideas has long neglected her contributions, despite her continuing reputation as one of post-World War II's premier political theorists. One reason for this neglect is that her contributions are scattered across a broad array of different works. This article seeks to…
Hans Morgenthau and Republicanism
Recent scholarship has called attention to the republican dimension of Hans Morgenthau's approach to politics in the postwar era, but the role republicanism played in his thought remains ambiguous. This essay examines that role, and explores its tensions with other aspects of his understanding of politics. It argues that he expanded and deepened his approach to politics as he developed a republican critique of American domestic politics. However,…
The American Republic, Executive Power and the National Security State
There is nothing new or even faintly original in the neoconservative foreign policy vision. It simply recycles the old national security ideology for a post-Cold War era. Consistent with this ideological agenda, conservatives have also been advancing the case for the strong executive who operates above the law. In championing the principle of the strong executive, they are seeking to re-define the meaning of modern republicanism around this princ…
Contesting Thucydides' Legacy
Post-war realists of every stripe have long sought to bolster the intellectual pedigree of their visions of international politics by claiming to be heirs of Thucydides. Hans Morgenthau invokes Thucydides to identify his own brand of realism with the timeless wisdom of a long tradition in Western political thought against the shallow modern conceits of contemporary liberal idealists. Using Arendt's and Morgenthau's treatments of imperialism as a …
Death of the Statesman as Tragic Hero
In Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (1946), Hans Morgenthau celebrated the noble role of the statesman, whose tragic destiny entailed accepting the agonizing moral burden of committing lesser evils as the inescapable price for securing the greater good. In this elitist vision, the statesman is primarily accountable to personal conscience rather than to the poorly informed, undisciplined judgment of any democratic electorate. In focusing on the s…
Justifying Official Disobedience
Do government officials, who have taken an affirmative oath to uphold the constitution, have any legitimate claim to disobey the law? We argue that they do. Indeed, the nature of law itself requires officials to have some mechanism to enforce the secondary rules or if one prefers, the associative obligations, upon which their authority is based. When institutional structures and official behavior makes it impossible for officials to subordinate g…
On Constructing a Corruption Principle
Citizens United has stimulated a cottage industry of legal scholarship on corruption. A prominent stream of this literature is self-consciously atheoretical and suggests that the current state of corruption jurisprudence suffers from a misconceived reliance on liberal political theories and a rejection of the public good. We argue that it is impossible to understand specific acts of corruption without a political theory explaining why such action…
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