
Ethics and Statecraft
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Ethics lie at the heart of human and therefore also international affairs, compelling nations to get involved "over there" and dedicate resources to intervention or to justify detachment. The politics and rhetoric of ethics constrain decision-makers, greatly complicating international situations. This third edition of Ethics and Statecraft addresses the moral reasoning behind the art of peacemaking as well as the ethics and statecraft of conducting war. The coverage ranges from historical transformations of whole eras of diplomatic and international history to issues of ethics of bombing and the laws of war. Specific attention is paid to emerging issues such as armed humanitarian intervention and sanctions, drone wars, war crimes, and economic justice.
The work is ideally suited for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations, history, political science, and ethics. It will also be useful for NGO officials and military officers struggling with these issues in the field. General readers will find illumination of highly relevant historical issues-including Allied bombing of civilians during World War II-that set precedents for both expansion and limitations on the laws of war. They will also encounter pressing modern-day quandaries, such as the conditions that permit or even require military or humanitarian intervention, and the impact of new technologies on old moral problems.
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword: Biography, Ethics, and Statecraft
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: War
- 1. "Bodyguard of Lies": Franklin D. Roosevelt and Defensible Deceit in World War II
- 2. Political Leadership and "Dirty Hands": Winston Churchill and the City Bombing of Germany
- 3. No End of a Lesson: Vietnam and the Nature of Moral Choice in Foreign Policy
- 4. Noncombatant Immunity and Civilian Liability in Contemporary Asymmetric Warfare
- Part II: Peacemaking
- 5. Power and Principle: The Statecraft of Theodore Roosevelt
- 6. The Higher Realism of Woodrow Wilson
- 7. Responsibility to Protect: Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities
- Part III: Transformation
- 8. Realism and Idealism in Historical Perspective: Otto von Bismarck
- 9. Konrad Adenauer, Arms, and the Redemption of Germany
- 10. Eduard Shevardnadze and the End of the Soviet System: Necessity and Choice
- Part IV: Emerging Issues
- 11. "The Lady Doth Protest Too Much": Intervention and the Turn to Ethics in International Law
- 12. Human Security
- 13. Drone Ethics
- 14. Ethics and Targeted Sanctions
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Index
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