Ethics, Foreign Policy, and Liberal Wars: The Role of Restraint in Moral Decision Making |
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Authors: | John A. Vasquez |
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Affiliation: | Colgate University |
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Abstract: | Can morality be a basis for making foreign policy? What happens when it is? The dangers in using morality to justify violence are discussed in the light of the just war tradition and liberalism. An ethical case for the importance of restraint in moral decision making, especially with regard to unnecessary but desirable wars within liberalist approaches to foreign policy, is presented. |
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Keywords: | ethics foreign policy decision making just war liberalism realism |
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