Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have—and have not—incorporated ethics into their foreign policy.

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency onward. Nye works through each presidency...