Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump [Original retail ed.] 0190935960, 978-0190935962

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments

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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump [Original retail ed.]
0190935960, 978-0190935962

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Joseph S. Jr. Nye

Commentary
"In Do Morals Matter? Joseph S. Nye argues persuasively that in foreign policy, good intentions must be accompanied by the use of appropriate means that generate beneficial consequences. His astute analysis of American presidents since World War II demonstrates that ’contextual intelligence’ is crucial for moral principles to yield good results." -- Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University

Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: American Moralism
American Exceptionalism
Wilsonian Liberalism
The Liberal International Order After 1945

2 What Is a Moral Foreign Policy?
How We Make Moral Judgments
Double Standards and Dirty Hands
Mental Maps of the World and Moral Foreign Policy
The Best Moral Choice in the Context: Scorecards

3 The Founders
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower

4 The Vietnam Era
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Richard M. Nixon

5 Post-Vietnam Retrenchment
Gerald R. Ford
James Earl Carter

6 The End of the Cold War
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush

7 The Unipolar Moment
William Jefferson Clinton
George Walker Bush

8 Twenty-First-Century Power Shifts
Barack Hussein Obama
Donald John Trump

9 Foreign Policy and Future Choices
Assessing Ethical Foreign Policy Since World War II
Contextual Intelligence and Moral Choices
The Ups and Downs of American Moral Traditions
Challenges for a Future Moral Foreign Policy
Conclusions

Notes
Index

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