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Title: Perilous Partners
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America's Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes
Author: Ted Galen Carpenter, Malou Innocent
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1939709709
EAN: 9781939709707
ISBN: 9781939709707
Publisher: Cato Institute
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Release Date: 07/09/2015
Description: Liberal democracies such as the United States face an acute dilemma in the conduct of foreign relations. Many states around the world are repressive or corrupt to varying degrees. Unfortunately, American national interests require cooperation with such regimes from time to time. To defeat Nazi Germany during World War II, the United States even allied with the Soviet Union, despite the barbarity of Josef Stalin's regime. But such partnerships have the inherent danger of compromising, or even making a mockery of, America's values of democratic governance, civil liberties, and free markets. Close working relationships with autocratic regimes, therefore, should not be undertaken lightly. U.S. officials have had a less than stellar record of grappling with that ethical dilemma. Especially during the Cold War, policymakers were casual about sacrificing important values for less-than-compelling strategic rationales. Since the 9-11 attacks, similar ethical compromises have taken place, although policymakers now seem more selective than their Cold War-era counterparts.In Perilous Partners, authors Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent provide a strategy for resolving the ethical dilemmas between interests and values faced by Washington. They propose maintaining an "arm's length relationship" with authoritarian regimes, emphasizing that the United States must not operate internationally in ways that routinely pollute American values. This book creates a strategy for conducting an effective U.S. foreign policy without betraying fundamental American values.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 237mm
Item Length: 161mm
Item Width: 42mm
Item Weight: 1007g
Release Year: 2015

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