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Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs (Humanistic Perspectives on International Relations)

by Cathal J. Nolan

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This revised edition of Ethics and Statecraft has been reorganized to better situate chapters that play to one another thematically, on peacemaking, the ethics and statecraft of war, and the statecraft of major international reform, and two new chapters, on Theodore Roosevelt and the Vietnam War, respectively, have been added to this classic work. The contributions remain centrally concerned with moral reasoning about important decisions taken by key statesmen in times of war, peace, and transformation, arguing that national leaders--including "realists"--have always concerned themselves with normative constraints on power, both their own and that of others.

Book News Annotation:

A graduate or undergraduate textbook for course in politics and social sciences, exploring the link between ethics and statecraft by examining the biographies and specific experiences of statesmen. No date is noted for the first edition; the second has been rearranged into sections on war, peacemaking and major international reform.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

Demonstrates that ethics is, in fact, at the core of statecraft and diplomacy, rather than a peripheral concern, and explains how exemplary statecraft seeks to balance ethical and pragmatic interests.

About the Author

CATHAL J. NOLAN is Associate Professor of History and Executive Director of the International History Institute at Boston University. He is the author of the four-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations (Greenwood Press, 2002), among many other titles in international affairs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

The Setting

Jackson

War

Nolan on FDR

Garret on Churchill

Armstrong on Vietnam

Peacemaking

Tilchin on TR

Link on Wilson

Jones on Hammarskjold

Transformation

Pflanze on Bismarck

Hodge on Adenauer

Marantz on Shervardnadze

Product Details

ISBN:
9780313314933
Subtitle:
The Moral Dimension of International Affairs
Editor:
Nolan, Cathal J.
Foreword:
Rosenthal, Joel H.
Editor:
Nolan, Cathal J.
Author:
Nolan, Cathal J.
Foreword:
Rosenthal, Joel H.
Publisher:
Praeger Publishers
Subject:
International Relations
Subject:
International Relations - General
Edition Number:
2
Series:
Humanistic Perspectives on International Relations,
Publication Date:
June 2004
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Pages:
221
Dimensions:
2.00 in.

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