Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs - Couverture rigide

McElroy, Robert W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691086214 ISBN 13 : 9780691086217

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This monograph attempts to demonstrate that moral norms can, and do, significantly affect international affairs by their influence on individual decision-makers, domestic public opinion and national reputation abroad. It investigates four cases of American foreign policy-making in the 20th century: US food aid to the Soviet Union during the Russian famine of 1921, President Nixon's decision to alter US 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. Three of these cases illustrate the influence of ethics in foreign policy: questions of conscience led US decision-makers to provide food aid to the Soviets despite its potentially stabilizing effect on a regime they despised; domestic support for the international moral norm against chemical warfare persuaded Nixon to endorse a radical revision of US biochemical policies, and the existence of a moral ban on territorial colonialism enabled the Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos to rally international opposition to continued US occcupation of the Panama Canal Zone. The limits of international norms are demonstrated in the case of Dresden, where the US Air Force felt compelled to violate the moral norm of non-combatant immunity.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691086214
• ISBN 13: 9780691086217
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible