This book is an argument about the moral foundations of foreign
policy. It argues that a liberal state can insist upon the universal
reach of liberal ideas, while still distinguishing between what is
owed to citizens and what is owed to foreign citizens. This liberalism
includes a concern for liberal toleration, which is intended to defend
the proposition that a liberal state can work for democratization and
liberalism abroad, without being intolerant or illiberal in doing so.
What constraints there are on foreign policy emerge not from the need
to tolerate undemocratic regimes, but from the prudential reason that
there are few effective and proportional means by which such regimes
might be liberalized. It also argues that international inequality is
wrong only when and to the extent this inequality can be shown to
undermine the democratic self-rule of a society. Global poverty and
underdevelopment is wrong for reasons quite unlike the reasons given
to condemn domestic inequality. These facts are combined to give an
attractive and coherent picture of how the foreign policy of a liberal
state might be morally evaluated.
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ISBN
9780191611520
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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