TY - GEN T1 - A foreign policy for the Left A1 - Walzer, Michael LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1017986264 AB - Something that has been needed for decades: a leftist foreign policy with a clear moral basis Foreign policy, for leftists, used to be relatively simple. They were for the breakdown of capitalism and its replacement with a centrally planned economy. They were for the workers against the moneyed interests and for colonized peoples against imperial (Western) powers. But these easy substitutes for thought are becoming increasingly difficult. Neo-liberal capitalism is triumphant, and the workers' movement is in radical decline. National liberation movements have produced new oppressions. A reflexive anti-imperialist politics can turn leftists into apologists for morally abhorrent groups. In Michael Walzer's view, the left can no longer (in fact, could never) take automatic positions but must proceed from clearly articulated moral principles. In this book, adapted from essays published in Dissent, Walzer asks how leftists should think about the international scene--about humanitarian intervention and world government, about global inequality and religious extremism--in light of a coherent set of underlying political values. OP - 198 CN - JZ1305 .W35 2018eb SN - 9780300231182 SN - 0300231180 SN - 9780300223873 SN - 0300223870 KW - International relations : Philosophy. KW - International relations : Political aspects : United States. KW - Relations internationales : Aspect politique : EĢtats-Unis. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : International. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : General. KW - International relations : Philosophy KW - International relations : Political aspects KW - United States ER -