9780197586297-0197586295-Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

ISBN-13: 9780197586297
ISBN-10: 0197586295
Author: Joseph S Nye Jr
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780197586297
ISBN-10: 0197586295
Author: Joseph S Nye Jr
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (ISBN-13: 9780197586297 and ISBN-10: 0197586295), written by authors Joseph S Nye Jr, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Ethics & Morality, Philosophy, International & World Politics, Politics & Government, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.86.

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A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy.

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy since Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's presidency onward. Nye works through each presidency from FDR to Trump and scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions: their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. He also evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which
approaches work and which ones do not. Regardless of a president's policy preference, Nye shows that each one was not fully constrained by the structure of the system and actually had choices. Since we so often apply moral reasoning to foreign policy, Nye suggests how to do it better. Most
importantly, he shows that presidents need to factor in both the political context and the availability of resources when deciding how to implement an ethical policy-especially in a future international system that presents not only great power competition from China and Russia, but a host of
additional transnational threats.

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