Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump Nye Joseph S.
Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump Nye Joseph S. A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into…
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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump Nye Joseph S.
A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy.Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through.
Nye works through each presidency from FDR to Trump and scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions: their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency onward. He also evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not.
Regardless of a president's policy preference, Nye shows that each one was not fully constrained by the