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Now in a comprehensively revised and updated edition, this text cogently demonstrates that moral values and ethical reasoning are indispensable in global politics. Through the use of balanced arguments and a wide-ranging selection of case studies, Amstutz illustrates the role of moral norms in international relations. He presents the concepts, theories, methods, and traditions of ethical analysis and then applies them to case studies in the areas of political reconciliation, human rights, war, unconventional military operations, foreign interve... MORE

List of Cases	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Morality and Foreign Policy	p. 7
Morality and Ethics	p. 7
The Nature and Bases of Political Morality	p. 10
The Development of a Moral Foreign Policy	p. 16
NATO Intervention in Kosovo	p. 20
Strategies of Ethical Decision Making	p. 27
Ends-Based Action	p. 28
The Ethics of N... MOREuclear Deterrence	p. 30
Rule-Based Action	p. 34
Famine Relief for Soviet Russia	p. 36
Tridimensional Ethics	p. 38
The Ethics of Strategic Defense	p. 40
The Role of Ethical Traditions	p. 43
The Nature and Role of Ethical Traditions	p. 44
Realism	p. 46
The Peloponnesian War	p. 48
Idealism	p. 52
President Carter's Human Rights Policy	p. 55
Principled Realism	p. 58
Ethics and the Bush Doctrine	p. 60
The Ethics of Political Reconciliation	p. 65
Reckoning with Past Regime Offenses	p. 65
The Quest for Political Reconciliation	p. 68
Retributive Justice	p. 70
Prosecuting Rwanda's Genocide Offenders	p. 71
Restorative Justice	p. 74
South African Reconciliation through Truth and Reparations	p. 76
Reconciliation through Political Forgiveness	p. 81
Political Forgiveness and the Bitburg Dilemma	p. 83
The Ethics of International Human Rights	p. 87
The Idea of Human Rights	p. 89
Caning in Singapore	p. 93
International Humanitarian Law	p. 95
Human Rights and Foreign Policy	p. 98
The Rwanda Genocide and the Failure to Prevent	p. 102
Promoting Human Rights	p. 104
The Ethics of War	p. 109
Three Moralities of Force	p. 110
The Ethics of the Persian Gulf War	p. 116
The Ethics of Preemptive and Preventive War	p. 120
Regime Change in Iraq	p. 124
The Ethics of Military Operations Other than War	p. 131
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency	p. 132
Ethics and the Reagan Doctrine	p. 135
Terrorism and Counterterrorism	p. 139
The Ethics of Torture and Targeted Killing	p. 142
The Ethics of Intervention	p. 151
Sovereignty and Nonintervention	p. 152
Arguments for Nonintervention	p. 154
Three Types of Intervention	p. 160
Political Intervention	p. 161
U.S. Intervention in Haiti	p. 161
Strategic Intervention	p. 163
U.S. Intervention in Grenada	p. 164
Humanitarian Intervention	p. 168
U.S. Intervention in Somalia	p. 170
The Ethics of Economic Sanctions	p. 175
The Aims and Effects of Economic Sanctions	p. 176
The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions	p. 179
U.S. Economic Sanctions against Cuba	p. 181
The Morality of Economic Sanctions	p. 185
Economic Sanctions and South African Apartheid	p. 189
Pursuing International Justice	p. 195
Justice and the International Community	p. 196
Rawls's Theory of International Justice	p. 200
The Ethics of Foreign Aid	p. 202
Individuals and the International Community	p. 206
Challenges to U.S. Immigration Policy	p. 211
The Ethics of Global Society	p. 217
The Development of Global Governance	p. 218
Protecting Global Public Goods	p. 222
Managing Global Climate Change	p. 225
International Legal Accountability	p. 229
The Detention of Augusto Pinochet	p. 232
Conclusion	p. 241
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 281
About the Author	p. 289
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Mark R. Amstutz is professor of political science at Wheaton College

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