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037    |bOxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513|nSAN
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100 1  Nye, Joseph S.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Do morals matter? :|bpresidents and foreign policy from 
       FDR to Trump /|cJoseph S. Nye. 
246 30 Presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2020] 
300    xiv, 254 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction: American moralism -- American exceptionalism
       -- Wilsonian liberalism -- The liberal international order
       after 1945 -- What is moral foreign policy? -- How we make
       moral judgements -- Double standards in dirty hands -- 
       Mental maps of the world and moral foreign policy -- The 
       best moral choice in the context: scorecards -- The 
       founders -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Harry S. Truman -- 
       Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The Vietnam era -- John F. Kennedy
       -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Richard M. Nixon -- Post-
       Vietnam Retrenchment -- Gerald R. Ford -- James Earl 
       Carter -- The end of the Cold War -- Ronald Reagan -- 
       George H. W. Bush -- The unipolar movement -- William 
       Jefferson Clinton -- George Walker Bush -- Twenty-first-
       century power shifts -- Barack Hussein Obama -- Donald J. 
       Trump -- Foregin policy and future choices -- Assessing 
       ethical foreign policy since 1945 -- Contextual 
       intelligence and moral choices -- Ups and downs of 
       American moral traditions -- Challenges for a future moral
       foreign policy -- Conclusions. 
520    "At dinner with a group of friends, one asked what I had 
       been doing lately. When I said I was writing a book on 
       presidents, ethics and foreign policy, she quipped "it 
       must be a short book." Another added more seriously, "I 
       didn't think ethics played much of a role." That 
       conventional wisdom marks not only dinner discussions, but
       political analyses as well. An Internet search shows 
       surprisingly few books on how presidents' moral views 
       affected their foreign policies and how that affects our 
       judgments of them. As Michael Walzer (an important 
       exception to the rule) described American graduate 
       training after 1945, "moral argument was against the rules
       of the discipline as it was commonly practiced, although a
       few writers defended interest as the new morality." A 
       survey of the top three American academic journals on 
       international relations over fifteen years found only four
       articles on the subject. As one author noted, "leading 
       scholars...do not dedicate serious attention to 
       investigating the influence of moral values on the conduct
       of nations." It is not a career-enhancing topic for a 
       young scholar, but has long intrigued me as an old 
       practitioner and student of American foreign policy. The 
       reasons for skepticism seem obvious to many. While 
       historians have written about American exceptionalism and 
       moralism, diplomats and theorists like George Kennan long 
       warned about the bad consequences of the American moralist
       -legalist tradition. International relations is the realm 
       of anarchy with no world government to provide order. 
       States must provide for their own defense, and when 
       survival is at stake, the ends justify the means. Where 
       there is no meaningful choice there can be no ethics. As 
       philosophers say, "ought implies can". No-one can fault 
       you for not doing the impossible"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
648  7 Since 1945|2fast 
650  0 Presidents|xProfessional ethics|zUnited States. 
650  0 Presidents|zUnited States|xDecision making. 
650  7 Presidents|xDecision making.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01075743 
650  7 Presidents|xProfessional ethics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01075793
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|y1945-1989|xMoral and 
       ethical aspects. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|y1989-|xMoral and ethical
       aspects. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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