Do Morals Matter?
Do Morals Matter?

Author: Joseph S. Nye

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0190935960

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What 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.

Morality and American Foreign Policy
Morality and American Foreign Policy

Author: Robert W. McElroy

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1400862752

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Most 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.

Morality and Foreign Policy
Morality and Foreign Policy

Author: Kenneth Martin Jensen

Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781878379092

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Focusing 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)

China's Just World
China's Just World

Author: Zhiyu Shi

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781555873509

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Looking at China's foreign policy, this book focuses on the Confucian-based need of Chinese leaders to present themselves as the supreme moral rectifiers of the world order.

Morality Politics in Western Europe
Morality Politics in Western Europe

Author: Isabelle Engeli

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1137016698

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Why do some countries have 'Culture Wars' over morality issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage while other countries hardly experience any conflict? This book argues that morality issues only generate major conflicts in political systems with a significant conflict between religious and secular parties.

The Place of Morality in Foreign Policy
The Place of Morality in Foreign Policy

Author: Felix E. Oppenheim

Publisher: Free Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Oppenheim (political science, U. of Massachusetts) examines the question of when it is relevant, and when not, to judge relations between governments from a moral perspective. He considers the state as actor, national interest, and nuclear weapons; and cites examples from the Munich Pact to the Iraqi War. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Moral Foundations of Politics
The Moral Foundations of Politics

Author: Ian Shapiro

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0300189753

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When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.

Traditions of International Ethics
Traditions of International Ethics

Author: Terry Nardin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780521457576

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This is the first comprehensive study of how different ethical traditions deal with the central moral problems of international affairs. Using the organizing concept of a tradition, it shows that ethics offers many different languages for moral debate rather than a set of unified doctrines. Each chapter describes the central concepts, premises, vocabulary, and history of a particular tradition and explains how that tradition has dealt with a set of recurring ethical issues in international relations. Such issues include national self-determination, the use of force in armed intervention or nuclear deterrence, and global distributive justice.

Duties Beyond Borders
Duties Beyond Borders

Author: Stanley Hoffmann

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1981-04-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780815601685

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Can moral behavior exist in a world of states? Under what conditions? Where if at all, do norms for moral behavior, considerations of right and wrong, fit int the relations between states? Drawing upon many historical examples, Stanley Hoffmann examines the complex questions of whether or not ethical action is possible in international politics and, if it is, what are the obstacles and constraints? Duties Beyond Borders tries to answer these questions and to suggest a course of “ethical politics” based on a pragmatic, realistic approach to international politics.

Moral Vision in International Politics
Moral Vision in International Politics

Author: David Halloran Lumsdaine

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1993-02-14

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780691027678

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This investigation of the evolving foreign aid policies of 18 developed nations challenges conventional international relations theory and explains how ethical commitments and humanitarian convictions can help to structure global politics.