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Summary:

"Brian Rathbun argues against the prevailing wisdom on morality in international relations, both the commonly held belief that foreign affairs is an amoral realm and the opposing concept that norms have gradually civilized an unethical world. By focusing on how states respond to being wronged rather than when they do right, Rathbun shows that morality is and always has been virtually everywhere in international relations - in the perception of threat, the persistence of conflict, the judgment of domestic audiences, and the articulation of expansionist goals. The inescapability of our moral impulses owes to their evolutionary origins in helping individuals solve recurrent problems in their anarchic environment. Through archival case studies of German foreign policy; the analysis of enormous corpora of text; and surveys of Russian, Chinese, and American publics, this book reorients how we think about the role of morality in international relations"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• The nature in and nature of international relations
• Lesser angels : moral condemnation and binding morality in international relations
• Mankind is what anarchy makes of it : the material origins of ethics
• See no evil, speak no evil? : cross-national micro- and macrofoundational evidence of morality's ubiquity
• To provide and to protect : a dual-process model of foreign policy ideology for a dangerous or competitive world
• Just desserts in the desert : fairness, status and Wilhelmine foreign policy during the Moroccan crises
• Barking dogs and beating drums : nationalism as moral revolution in German foreign policy
• Biting the bullet : binding morality, rationality and the domestic politics of war termination in Germany during World War I
• Dying in vain : authoritarian morality causes the German Empire to collapse
• Daily bread : Hitler, moral devolution and Nazi foreign policy
• From demonizing to dehumanizing : war under Hitler and the implications for humankind.

Author/Creator:

Rathbun, Brian C., 1973- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Right and wronged in international relations: evolutionary ethics, moral revolutions, and the nature of power politics [by Rathbun, B.C.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Right and wronged in international relations [by Rathbun, B.C.] (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 — ISBN 9781009344722; LCCN 2022050161)

Related Series:

Cambridge studies in international relations; [volume] 163

Subjects:

International relations — Moral and ethical aspects

Germany — Foreign relations — 1871-1918

Germany — Foreign relations — 1933-1945

World War, 1914-1918 — Germany

World War, 1939-1945 — Germany

World War (1914-1918)

World War (1939-1945)

1871-1945

International relations

Diplomatic relations

Germany

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xx, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

JZ1306 .R37 2023

ISBNs:

9781009344685 (paperback)
1009344684 (paperback)
9781009344715 (hardback)
1009344714 (hardback)
9781009344722 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022050160

OCLC Numbers:

1347696195