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Principled Diplomacy Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
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Cathal J. Nolan
Book Code: NPD/
ISBN: 0-313-28006-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28006-1
312 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 1/30/1993
List Price: $126.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Political Science
Series Number: 313
Reviews:
  • This serious study is recommended for specialists in foreign policy, human rights, and ethics.
    —Choice
Description: This new analysis of governing ideas in U.S. foreign policy shows how they arise, are sustained and challenged both domestically and internationally, and become part of the world order. Nolan assesses the problems of reconciling concerns for individual rights and liberal principles with national security interests in U.S. foreign policy over the course of the twentieth century. This interpretive survey redefines the key components in the make-up of U.S. diplomacy and provides good reading for students of American government, international relations and U.S. foreign policy, American and world history, defense, and human rights policy. This short history traces the notions that liberty is indivisible and that security depends ultimately on the establishment and success of liberal-democratic norms between and within states. It shows how U.S. policy vacillates between giving active or passive expression to these ideas, always relying on a basic assumption about the presumed pacific character of democracy. Utilizing a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, it looks at how these ideas became manifest in two major policy settings---those affecting the Soviet Union and the UN. Through these case studies, the book shows how these ideas become progressively embedded in U.S. policy; how they have been challenged by different interests and events; how they were disseminated among and accepted by allies (and even several former adversaries); and how, as a result, they now permeate the structures of major international organizations, and even underlie the emerging post-Cold War international system as a whole. The conclusion offers an interesting perspective for the future.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Soviet Union
  • Responding to Revolution
  • From Recognition to Alliance
  • The Great Divide
  • Rhetoric and Realism
  • Human Rights and Detente
  • Beyond Containment
  • The United Nations
  • Active at the Creation
  • An End to Leadership
  • Congress vs. The President
  • Conclusions
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 92-30006
LCC Class: JX1417
Dewey Class: 327.73
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