Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World
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America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of concrete proposals for tackling the terrorist threat and contend with Iran, Russia, the Middle East, and China, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman show us how to strengthen our security, pursue our national interests, and restore American leadership in the world. The New York Times - James Traub Ethical Realism is passionately argued and bristlingly accusatory (more Lieven than Hulsman, one suspects). It reminds us that we once knew how to confront an adversary without sacrificing something essential of ourselves. More than that, it reminds us how very different was the moral atmosphere of the cold war from that of our own time, as this telling aside from the notes of President Eisenhower (cited by Lieven and Hulsman) suggests: "Global war as a defense of freedom: Almost contradiction in terms."
Introduction xiLessons of the Truman-Eisenhower Moment 3The Failure of Rollback and Preventive War 35Ethical Realism 53The Great Capitalist Peace 87The Way Forward 119Conclusions 178Notes 181
