Ethics and Foreign Policy
Author: Karen E. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-13
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521009300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocratic citizenship possible: MERVYN FROST
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Morality and American Foreign Policy
Author: Robert W. McElroy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1400862752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost international relations specialists since World War II have assumed that morality plays only the most peripheral role in the making of substantive foreign policy decisions. To show that moral norms can, and do, significantly affect international affairs, Robert McElroy investigates four cases of American foreign policy-making: U.S. food aid to the Soviet Union during the Russian famine of 1921, Nixon's decision to alter U.S. policies on biochemical weapons production in 1969, the signing of the Panama Canal Treaties in 1978, and the bombing of Dresden during World War II. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Do Morals Matter?
Author: Joseph S. Nye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0190935960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the role of ethics in American foreign policy? The Trump Administration has elevated this from a theoretical question to front-page news. Should ethics even play a role, or should we only focus on defending our material interests? In Do Morals Matter? Joseph S. Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have-and have not-incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Nye examines each presidency during theAmerican era post-1945 and scores them on the success they achieved in implementing an ethical foreign policy. Alongside this, he evaluates their leadership qualities, explaining which approaches work and which ones do not.
The Ethics of Foreign Policy
Author: Betty Mason-Parker
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1409498115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking volume considers the ethical aspects of foreign policy change through five interrelated dimensions: conceptual, security, economic, normative and diplomatic. Defining ethics and what an ethical foreign policy should be is highly contested. The book includes many very different viewpoints to reflect the strong divergence of opinion on such issues as humanitarian intervention, free trade, the doctrine of preemption, political corruption and human rights. The thematic approach provides this volume with a clear organizational structure, giving readers a balanced overview of a number of important conceptual and practical issues central to the ethical analysis of states' conduct and foreign policy making. An impressive group of international scholars and practitioners, including a New Zealand Foreign Minister, a US National Security Advisor, and an ICJ Justice, makes this volume ideally suited to courses on international relations, security studies, ethics and human rights, philosophy, media studies and international law.
Ethical Foreign Policy?
Author: Chih-Hann Chang
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781409425489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the 1990s gave rise to a wealth of literature on the notion of ethical foreign policy, it has tended to simply focus on a version of realism, which overlooks the role of ethics in international affairs. This book explores ethical realism as a theoretical framework.
Morality and Foreign Policy
Author: Kenneth Martin Jensen
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781878379092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on post-World War II American foreign policy and its intellectual architect, George Kennan, this volume explores the moral dimensions of realpolitik and the ethical dilemmas posed by present-day politics. Is Kennan responsible for persuading the U.S. foreign policy establishment that morality should go by the wayside? Or was Kennan right to regard as "presumptuous" the idea that Americans should tell other societies how to behave? Kennan gives his own influential view in an article reprinted here from Foreign Affairs (1985/96). (Workshop 6)
Ethics and International Relations
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1108843468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLebow shows how and why foreign policies consistent with ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail.
Ethics As Foreign Policy
Author: Dan Bulley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-05-07
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1134014597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthical foreign policy has often been considered utopian, unrealistic and potentially very dangerous. Dan Bulley argues for a reconceptualisation of ethics as foreign policy, as both look to how we can, and ought to, relate to others. Inspired by the deconstructive thought of Jacques Derrida, Bulley studies the ethical claims of British (1997-2007) and EU (1999-2004) foreign policy. These claims are read against themselves to illustrate their deep ambiguity. A textual analysis of speeches, statements and interviews given by foreign policy makers shows that a responsibility to save ‘Africa’, to protect Iraqis, and to hospitably welcome the Balkans into the EU are also irresponsible, inhospitable and unethical. The author contends that foreign policies making a claim to morality are ethical and unethical, in their own terms, suggesting that while a truly ethical foreign policy remains ultimately unachievable, it does not justify abandoning a responsible relation to others. Rather, a negotiation of ethics as foreign policy suggests potential individual, context-bound decisions which remain open to contestation and permanent critique. Bulley argues that the goal of ethical foreign policy must be maintained as a productive hope of what is neither completely impossible, nor entirely possible.
Coercion, Cooperation, and Ethics in International Relations
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1135917019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together the recent essays of Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and US foreign policy. Lebow's work has centred on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making and the disastrous consequences which follow when ethical standards are flouted. Unlike most realists who have considered ethical considerations irrelevant in states' calculations of their national interest, Lebow has argued that self interest, and hence, national interest can only be formulated intelligently within a language of justice and morality. The essays here build on this pervasive theme in Lebow's work by presenting his substantive and compelling critique of strategies of deterrence and compellence, illustrating empirically and normatively how these strategies often produce results counter to those that are intended. The last section of the book, on counterfactuals, brings together another set of related articles which continue to probe the relationship between ethics and policy. They do so by exploring the contingency of events to suggest the subjective, and often self-fulfilling, nature of the frameworks we use to evaluate policy choices.
Global Ethics
Author: Mervyn Frost
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-26
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1134036930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis provocative and original book provides a concise explanation of why global politics must be understood in ethical terms. Mervyn Frost illustrates the theory with a series of detailed case studies on the Iraq war, the war on terror, Iran, the use of private military companies, migration and terrorism and in so doing he forces the reader to confront their own necessary engagement as ethical citizens of a global society.
