Might and Right After the Cold War Can Foreign Policy Be Moral?

by Cromartie, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780896331808
• ISBN10: 0896331806
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-08
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

The post-Cold War debate over America's role in world affairs has raised old questions about 'morality in foreign policy' in a new form. Should 'the national interest' be our only value in world politics or is the concept itself an exercise in moral reasoning? How do we avoid cynicism and utopianism in thinking about the relationship between traditional American moral values and U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s? Alberto Coll, James Finn, Richard Land, Luis Lugo, George Weigel, and Nicholas Wolterstorff grapple with this new debate from the common ground of biblical morality and provide fresh and provocative insights.

Table of Contents

Preface
Might and Right
Prudence and Foreign Policy	p. 3
Response	p. 29
Morality and Foreign Policy	p. 37
Response	p. 63
The Poverty of Conventional Realism	p. 67
Response	p. 88
The Prudence Tradition
From Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics	p. 99
From Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae	p. 115
Appendix	p. 125
Notes	p. 127
Index of Names	p. 131
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