29.01.2025

Madness as a strategy. Ethics of conviction and responsibility in politics

New blog article by Thorsten Benkel

Richard Nixon's “Madman Theory” was intended to deter opponents in the Vietnam War through unpredictable behavior. But how did he combine ethics of responsibility with ethics of conviction - and still fail? The article sheds light on how calculated madness was used as a political tool and what parallels can still be drawn today.

To the article: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/276753