Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/002479094/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 27 of
27
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "In this informed and comprehensive assessment of current issues in international politics, Kenneth W. Thompson addresses the role that traditions and values play in shaping change and in helping us to understand its implications. He challenges the idea that the enormous changes in contemporary national and international life have rendered the consideration of traditions and values obsolete. Thompson's purpose is to illuminate the problems we face and to set forth general principles directed toward an informing theory on traditions and values as they affect politics and diplomacy, while at the same time warning of the pitfalls and limitations of theory. In the first section of the book, Thompson draws on classical and Judaeo-Christian traditions in defining the relationship between philosophy, religion, and politics. He then examines the application of abstract values to such political realities as national interest, and goes on to consider the question of moral values in international diplomacy and politics. In a series of case studies, Thompson reflects on human rights, disarmament and arms control, and human survival. Maintaining that the implementation of traditions and values is sometimes uniquely the task of the American presidency, he studies the administrations of four postwar presidents--Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon--in the light of the executives' attitudes toward ethics and politics. Finally, Thompson considers the implications of national decline and the breakdown of international order for the future of the United States. The vast knowledge of international affairs and of the literature of politics that Kenneth W. Thompson brings to this timely and reflective book makes it exceptionally readable as well as intellectually challenging.".
- catalog contributor b3575694.
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 1945-1989.".
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Philosophy.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "In this informed and comprehensive assessment of current issues in international politics, Kenneth W. Thompson addresses the role that traditions and values play in shaping change and in helping us to understand its implications. He challenges the idea that the enormous changes in contemporary national and international life have rendered the consideration of traditions and values obsolete. Thompson's purpose is to illuminate the problems we face and to set forth general principles directed toward an informing theory on traditions and values as they affect politics and diplomacy, while at the same time warning of the pitfalls and limitations of theory. In the first section of the book, Thompson draws on classical and Judaeo-Christian traditions in defining the relationship between philosophy, religion, and politics. He then examines the application of abstract values to such political realities as national interest, and goes on to consider the question of moral values in international diplomacy and politics. In a series of case studies, Thompson reflects on human rights, disarmament and arms control, and human survival. Maintaining that the implementation of traditions and values is sometimes uniquely the task of the American presidency, he studies the administrations of four postwar presidents--Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon--in the light of the executives' attitudes toward ethics and politics. Finally, Thompson considers the implications of national decline and the breakdown of international order for the future of the United States. The vast knowledge of international affairs and of the literature of politics that Kenneth W. Thompson brings to this timely and reflective book makes it exceptionally readable as well as intellectually challenging.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part I. Tradition in philosophy, religion, and ethics -- The classical and Christian traditions -- The rise and fall of moral standards: renewal or retrogression? -- Four decades of international relations theorizing -- Peace studies: social movement or intellectual discipline? -- The religious transformation of politics and the political transformation of religion -- Part II. Complexities and constraints: The realities of practice -- Realism -- Power -- Freedom and equality: a discourse on purpose -- Beliefs, true beliefs, and the Constitution -- Part III. Reinstating values in the practice of politics and diplomacy -- Moral values and international politics -- Power and morality: approaches and problems -- The ethical dimension in American thinking about nuclear war and peace -- The meeting of ethics and diplomacy -- Part IV. Persistent problems -- Human rights: rationalism, irrationalism, and the contingent -- Why disarmament and arms control? -- Human survival: crusade or coherent plan? -- Part V. Presidents and conflicts of values -- Lincoln as model -- Dwight D. Eisenhower: military victory versus political power -- John F. Kennedy's foreign policy: activism versus pragmatism -- Lyndon B. Johnson: national interest and collective security -- Richard M. Nixon's foreign policy: continuities and contradictions -- Part VI. Whither men and nations -- History as end point or new beginning? -- Nation in decline -- Living with uncertainty.".
- catalog extent "xii, 353 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0807117420 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0807117463 (paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Political traditions in foreign policy series".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 1945-1989.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "327.73 20".
- catalog subject "E183.7 .T47 1992".
- catalog subject "International relations Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Tradition in philosophy, religion, and ethics -- The classical and Christian traditions -- The rise and fall of moral standards: renewal or retrogression? -- Four decades of international relations theorizing -- Peace studies: social movement or intellectual discipline? -- The religious transformation of politics and the political transformation of religion -- Part II. Complexities and constraints: The realities of practice -- Realism -- Power -- Freedom and equality: a discourse on purpose -- Beliefs, true beliefs, and the Constitution -- Part III. Reinstating values in the practice of politics and diplomacy -- Moral values and international politics -- Power and morality: approaches and problems -- The ethical dimension in American thinking about nuclear war and peace -- The meeting of ethics and diplomacy -- Part IV. Persistent problems -- Human rights: rationalism, irrationalism, and the contingent -- Why disarmament and arms control? -- Human survival: crusade or coherent plan? -- Part V. Presidents and conflicts of values -- Lincoln as model -- Dwight D. Eisenhower: military victory versus political power -- John F. Kennedy's foreign policy: activism versus pragmatism -- Lyndon B. Johnson: national interest and collective security -- Richard M. Nixon's foreign policy: continuities and contradictions -- Part VI. Whither men and nations -- History as end point or new beginning? -- Nation in decline -- Living with uncertainty.".
- catalog title "Traditions and values in politics and diplomacy : theory and practice / Kenneth W. Thompson.".
- catalog type "text".