HONOR IN FOREIGN POLICY: A HISTORY AND DISCUSSION

A frequent phrase for the aims of foreign policy from the Peace of Westphalia until the twentieth century was "interests and honor." There have been many treatments of interests. Donelan offers some material for discussion of the concern for honor. He offers a history of honor in foreign policy both from a theoretical perspective, exploring the "onslaught against virtue by the ideologists of conflict: Realists, Racists, Darwinists, Nationalists, Fascists, Nazis, Marxist-Leninists" and from the historical: to give an even-handed account of the honorable and the dishonorable in the European empires: greed, glory, violence, and disruption on the one hand, and, on the other, better government, often devoted to the interests of the people, and greatly advancing these. He provides lessons for the implementation of today's foreign policy based on the experiences from the past. -- Publisher's Description.