Samenvatting

According to religionists, religion plays an important role in international relations. They accuse the field of International Relations and especially the political realism of Morgenthau and Waltz that they neglect religion unjustifiably. This article shows that in many cases it is different and that political realism has reasons of a scientific-philosophical, political-philosophical and political-theological nature to be cautious with regard to religion. To do justice to both the religionists and the political realists, the article proposes a normative practices approach called: a new Christian realism.