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Five Uneasy Pieces - American Ethics in a Globalized World (Paperback)
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Five Uneasy Pieces - American Ethics in a Globalized World (Paperback)
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Americans pride themselves on being an ethical people. They go to
church, quote the Bible, erect statues, and discuss morality with
abandon. They also trust their government to do the right thing
when it comes to delivering legal justice and conducting foreign
policy. Trouble is, American foreign policy has yielded some pretty
spectacular ethical lapses, and (as 9/11 starkly demonstrated) the
world is beginning to notice. Here, Mark Gibney lays out some of
the most egregious insults the U.S. has visited upon international
law, economic justice, and human rights in recent times. He covers
everything from multinational corporations, the first Persian Gulf
war, and Guantanamo Bay to American refugee policy, foreign aid,
and global environmental degradation. Through all these examples,
he exposes the discrepancy between the guise of ethical policy
motivation and the reality of situational international ethics or
worse. He shows us how we practice 'easy ethics' in an uneasy
world, and how it is beginning to catch up with us. Part I
concludes with a gallop through the alphabet of countries where the
U.S. has engaged in nefarious legal behavior and supported brutal
dictatorships everywhere from Argentina to Zaire. Part II offers a
cautious 'coda of hope' in exploring recent trends toward public
political apology and forgiveness, new U.S. policies toward AIDS in
Africa, and renewed civic commitment flowing out of the tragedy of
9/11. Only when the exercise of American ethics becomes as muscular
as our use of military force will the United States become the
ethical superpower it projects itself to be. And only then will the
concert of nations join us in the harmonization of global
governance."
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