Abstract
The Bush Administration shifted its foreign policy strategy after the attacks of 9/11 to focus on the importance of morality in politics, a standpoint known as the Bush Doctrine. Reinhold Niebuhr, an important theorist of Christian realism, followed the ideas of St. Augustine and stressed the essential integration of power and morality in international affairs. The views of Niebuhr and the Bush Doctrine share several similarities, including the management of force to maintain global order, and a reliance on a Christian view of human nature. The balance of these two perspectives allows policy makers to hold the need for power alongside the realization that self-interest often clouds political judgment.
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