Coercion, Cooperation, and Ethics in International Relations

by Lebow; Richard Ned

• ISBN13: 9780415955249
• ISBN10: 0415955246
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Coercion, Cooperation and Ethics in International Relationsbrings together the recent essays of, Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and U.S. Foreign Policy. Lebow's work has centered on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making and the disastrous consequences which follow when ethical standard are flouted. Unlike most realists who have considered ethical considerations irrelevant in states' calculations of their national interest, Lebow has argued that self interest, and hence, national interest can only be formulated intelligently within a language of justice and morality. The essays here build on this pervasive theme in Lebow's work by presenting his substantive and compelling critique of strategies of deterrence and compellence illustrating empirically and normatively how these strategies often produce results counter to those that are intended. The last section of the book, on counterfactuals, brings together another set of relatedarticles which continue to probe the relationship between ethics and policy. They do so by exploring the contingency of events to suggest the subjective, and often self-fulfilling, nature of the frameworks we use to evaluate policy choices. With a new substantive introduction that will place the essays in the context of Lebow's comprehensive views on ethics and foreign policy, this book will be a major statement by a major thinker in international relations.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1
PART I Colonialism and its aftermath	29
1 Colonial policies and their payoffs	31
2 Divided nations and partitioned countries	47
COAUTHORED WITH GREGORY HENDERSON
PART II Deterrence	69
3 Cognitive closure and crisis politics	71
4 Beyond deterrence	121
COAUTHORED WITH JANICE GROSS STEIN
5 Nuclear deterrence in retrospect	185
COAUTHORED WITH JANICE GROSS STEIN
PART III Compellence	221
6 Beyond parsimony: rethinking theories of coercive bargaining	223
7 Thomas Schelling and strategic bargaining	255
8 Robert McNamara: Max Weber's worst nightmare	277
PART IV Cooperation	293
9 Reason, emotion, and cooperation	295
10 Building international cooperation	325
PART V Ancient Greeks and modern international relations	349
11 Thucydides the constructivist	351
12 Power, persuasion, and justice	379
13 Tragedy, politics, and political science	405
PART VI Conclusions	413
14 The future of international relations theory	415
Name Index	437
Subject Index	443