Morality and American foreign policy: the role of ethics in international affairs
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. Robert McElroy shows that moral norms can, and do, significantly affect international affairs by their influence on indivi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. Robert McElroy shows that moral norms can, and do, significantly affect international affairs by their influence on individual decisionmakers, domestic public opinion, and national reputation abroad. He investigates four cases of American foreign policymaking in the twentieth century: U.S. food aid to the Soviet Union during the Russian famine of 1921, President 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. Three of these cases illustrate the influence of ethics in foreign policy: questions of conscience led U.S. decisionmakers 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 U.S. biochemical policies, and the existence of a moral ban on territorial colonialism enabled the Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos to rally international opposition to continued U.S. occupation of the Panama Canal Zone. The limits of international norms are demonstrated in the case of Dresden, where, for a variety of reasons, U.S. air forces felt compelled to violate the moral norm of noncombatant immunity. |
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| adam_text | Morality and American
Foreign Policy
THE ROLE OF ETHICS
IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Robert W McElroy
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
CONTENTS
Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
CHAPTER ONE
The Debate on Morality and International Relations 3
CHAPTER TWO
Toward a Theoretical Understanding of the Role of
International Moral Norms 30
CHAPTER THREE
United States Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921 57
CHAPTER FOUR
America s Renunciation of Chemical and Biological Warfare 88
CHAPTER FIVE
Colonialism and the Panama Canal 115
CHAPTER SIX
The Limits of Moral Norms: The Bombing of Dresden 148
CHAPTER SEVEN
Conclusions 168
Selected Bibliography 185
Index 191
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