Duties Beyond Borders - On the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics

Can moral behavior exist in a world of states? Under what conditions? Where if at all, do norms for moral behavior, considerations of right and wrong, fit int the relations between states?
Drawing upon many historical examples, Stanley Hoffmann examines the complex questions of whether or not ethical action is possible in international politics and, if it is, what are the obstacles and constraints? Duties Beyond Borders tries to answer these questions and to suggest a course of "ethical politics" based on a pragmatic, realistic approach to international politics.

About the author

Stanley Hoffmann is the author of Primacy or World Order: American Policy since the Cold War, Decline or Renewal? France since the 1930s, and Gulliver's Troubles, or Setting of American Foreign Policy.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Hoffman, Stanley Hoffmann
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1981
• EAN: 9780815601685
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0168-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 385 g
• Series: Frank W. Abrams Lectures; Contemporary Issues in the Mid; Contemporary Issues in the Middle East; Frank W. Abrams Lectures
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education