Coercion, Cooperation, and Ethics in International Relations

by Richard Ned Lebow

Book Overview

This volume brings together the recent essays of Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and US foreign policy.

Lebow's work has centred on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making and the disastrous consequences which follow when ethical standards are flouted. Unlike most realists who have considered ethical considerations irrelevant in states' calculations of their national interest,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415955246
• ISBN13: 9780415955249
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"