Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War Liberalism

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This book offers a succinct re-examination of Berlin’s Cold War liberalism, at a time when many observers worry about the emergence of a new Cold War. Two chapters look closely at Berlin’s liberalism in a Cold War context, one carefully analyses whether Berlin was offering a universal political theory – and argues that he did indeed (already at the time of the Cold War there were worries that Berlin was a kind of relativist). It will be of value for scholars of the cold war and of security issues in contemporary Asia, as well as students of history and philosophy. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: Concepts, Character, and the Specter of New Cold Wars (Jan-Werner Müller)....Pages 1-10 Isaiah Berlin and Reinhold Niebuhr: Cold War Liberalism as an Intellectual Ethos (Joshua L. Cherniss)....Pages 11-36 The Contours of Cold War Liberalism (Berlin’s in Particular) (Jan-Werner Müller)....Pages 37-56 Liberal Pluralism and Common Decency (Jonathan Riley)....Pages 57-91 Back Matter ....Pages 93-94