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Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy (Paperback)
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Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy (Paperback)
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The Plaunt Lectures for 1965 deal with the perennial problem of
moral man in immoral society, the society in question being the
international states-system. An examination of the working of that
system discloses that the scope for wrong-doing by the makers of
foreign policy has, since 1945, enlarged rather than contracted.
Deceit, treachery, and cruelty are held to be the characteristic
manifestations of modern statecraft, rather than exceptional or
aberrational. An attempt is made to discover why this should be so.
The traditional attitudes towards the discrepancy between private
ethics and the ethics of statecraft is assessed, and found wanting;
a new attitude is outlined, and recommended. Finally, the Lectures
seeks fresh answers to Machiavelli's classic inquiry into the ways
in which statesman should keep faith; the inquiry is broadened to
include not statesmen only, but public servants - diplomatic and
military - the public at large, and intellectuals (in whom a
special responsibility is discerned). The range of applications of
these lectures is immense: argued closely, and yet from a broad
intellectual base, they pertain directly to all who exercise and
influence public authority.
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