Honor in Foreign Policy: A History and Discussion (Palgrave MacMillan History of International Thought) (Hardcover)
This book offers a history of honor in foreign policy, working from both a theoretical and historical perspective. Topics covered include the ideologies of Darwinists, nationalists, and fascists, as well as an account of the greed that goes hand-in-hand with advances in government, offering lessons for the implementation of foreign policy today.
MICHAEL DONELAN is Professor Emeritus of International Relations, London School of Economics, UK.
“Michael Donelan applies virtue ethics to foreign policy and discerns a motive for honor lurking in even modern and utilitarian liberal society. This study of honor in foreign policy tests the limits of rationalist and consequentialist calculations, and draws vivid pictures of societies where honor in foreign policy ruled. The account of honor in Soviet foreign policy is particularly impressive.”
--Cornelia Navari, University of Buckingham "[A]n eminently civilized book: one which leave the reader not only wiser and better informed, but feeling kinder about the way the world is managed.--David Goodall, The Tablet