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Right and Wronged in International Relations

Evolutionary Ethics, Moral Revolutions, and the Nature of Power Politics

By: Brian C. Rathbun

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Right and Wronged in International Relations

Evolutionary Ethics, Moral Revolutions, and the Nature of Power Politics

By: Brian C. Rathbun

Countering the opposing narratives of political amorality and moral progressivism, Rathbun provides a new approach to the place of morality in international politics. This book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations and security studies, especially those interested in normative, psychological and evolutionary approaches.

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1009344714

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Partisan Interventions

European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans

By: Brian C. Rathbun

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Partisan Interventions

European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans

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Ideological differences among political parties result in consistently different understandings of the national interest, Brian C. Rathbun shows. These differences between parties are critical as major international events unfold. In the first comprehensive treatment of the effects of partisan politics in foreign affairs, Rathbun examines domestic party disagreements across the 1990s in Britain, France, and Germany regarding humanitarian interventions and the creation of a European Union security force. The different reactions of the left and the right in the Western European nations had, for example, profound implications for the resolution of conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo. Rathbun argues that leftist parties, compared to their rightist counterparts, believe less in the efficacy of force, are more willing to rely on multilateral cooperation to realize their goals, and have a broader conception of the national interest that includes the promotion of human rights abroad. Cultural factors, such as a nation's unique history with the use of force, do not constrain partisan debate but rather make particular issues controversial and help parties resolve value conflicts. Partisan Interventions is based on interviews with dozens of senior party and government officials. Rathbun draws on the experiences of former foreign and defense ministers, heads of the armed services, ambassadors to the United Nations and NATO, and party spokespersons on foreign and defense policy.

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Cornell University Press

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1501729624

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Reasoning of State

Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations

By: Brian C. Rathbun

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Reasoning of State

Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations

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Challenges the assumption of the rationality of foreign policy makers in international relations, showing how leaders systematically vary in the rationality of their thinking.

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1108427421

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Diplomacy's Value

Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East

By: Brian C. Rathbun

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Diplomacy's Value

Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East

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What is the value of diplomacy? How does it affect the course of foreign affairs independent of the distribution of power and foreign policy interests? Theories of international relations too often implicitly reduce the dynamics and outcomes of diplomacy to structural factors rather than the subtle qualities of negotiation. If diplomacy is an independent effect on the conduct of world politics, it has to add value, and we have to be able to show what that value is. In Diplomacy’s Value, Brian C. Rathbun sets forth a comprehensive theory of diplomacy, based on his understanding that political leaders have distinct diplomatic styles: coercive bargaining, reasoned dialogue, and pragmatic statecraft. Drawing on work in the psychology of negotiation, Rathbun explains how diplomatic styles are a function of the psychological attributes of leaders and the party coalitions they represent. The combination of these styles creates a certain spirit of negotiation that facilitates or obstructs agreement. Rathbun applies the argument to relations among France, Germany, and Great Britain during the 1920s as well as Palestinian–Israeli negotiations since the 1990s. His analysis, based on an intensive analysis of primary documents, shows how different diplomatic styles can successfully resolve apparently intractable dilemmas and equally, how they can thwart agreements that were seemingly within reach.

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0801455065

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9780801455063

Trust in International Cooperation

International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics and American Multilateralism

By: Brian C. Rathbun

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Trust in International Cooperation

International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics and American Multilateralism

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Trust in International Cooperation challenges conventional wisdoms concerning the part which trust plays in international cooperation and the origins of American multilateralism. Brian C. Rathbun questions rational institutionalist arguments, demonstrating that trust precedes rather than follows the creation of international organizations. Drawing on social psychology, he shows that individuals placed in the same structural circumstances show markedly different propensities to cooperate based on their beliefs about the trustworthiness of others. Linking this finding to political psychology, Rathbun explains why liberals generally pursue a more multilateral foreign policy than conservatives, evident in the Democratic Party's greater support for a genuinely multilateral League of Nations, United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Rathbun argues that the post-World War Two bipartisan consensus on multilateralism is a myth, and differences between the parties are growing continually starker.

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Reasoning of State

Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations

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Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations

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Scholars and citizens tend to assume that rationality guides the decision-making of our leaders. Brian C. Rathbun suggests, however, that if we understand rationality to be a cognitive style premised on a commitment to objectivity and active deliberation, rational leaders are in fact the exception not the norm. Using a unique combination of methods including laboratory bargaining experiments, archival-based case studies, quantitative textual analysis and high-level interviews, Rathbun questions some of the basic assumptions about rationality and leadership, with profound implications for the field of international relations. Case studies of Bismarck and Richelieu show that the rationality of realists makes them rare. An examination of Churchill and Reagan, romantics in international politics who sought to overcome obstacles in their path through force of will and personal agency, show what less rationality looks like in foreign policy making.

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1108688381

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Right and Wronged in International Relations

Evolutionary Ethics, Moral Revolutions, and the Nature of Power Politics

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Evolutionary Ethics, Moral Revolutions, and the Nature of Power Politics

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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.

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Trust in International Cooperation

International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics and American Multilateralism

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International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics and American Multilateralism

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Partisan Interventions

European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans

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European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans

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Right and Wronged in International Relations

Right and Wronged in International Relations

Partisan Interventions

Partisan Interventions

Reasoning of State

Reasoning of State

Diplomacy's Value

Diplomacy's Value

Trust in International Cooperation

Trust in International Cooperation

Reasoning of State

Reasoning of State

Right and Wronged in International Relations

Right and Wronged in International Relations

Trust in International Cooperation

Trust in International Cooperation

Partisan Interventions

Partisan Interventions

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