Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy's Moral Universe

by Boyd-Judson,Lyn

• ISBN13: 9781565492905
• ISBN10: 1565492900
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-05-15
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

Strategic Moral Diplomacy addresses the most critical political problem of our time: how to negotiate seemingly incompatible moral values between nations. Normative and rational choice theories tend to simplify the actions and motives of leaders at the best, and paint enemies as immoral or evil at the worst. Boyd-Judson argues that it can be both strategically useful, as well as ethical, to assume an enemy may have just moral concerns and give these claims credence. Boyd-Judson uses the US and UN negations with Iran, Libya, Zimbabwe and Haiti to illustrate the practical application of strategic moral diplomacy. Through personal interviews with negotiators and those close to them, she unearths the complex moral positions held by those involved and arrives at workable suggestions for future diplomatic dilemmas. Critical to the education of global citizens and future diplomats, Strategic Moral Diplomacy is an irreplaceable teaching tool for discussing social justice, rogue states, and the importance of understanding moral psychology in international relations.

Author Biography

Boyd-Judson uses the US and UN negotiations with Iran, Libya, Zimbabwe and Haiti to illustrate the practical application of strategic moral diplomacy. Through personal interviews with negotiators and those close to them, she unearths the complex moral positions held by those involved and arrives at workable suggestions for future diplomatic dilemmas. Critical to the education of global citizens and future diplomats, Strategic, Moral Diplomacy is an irreplaceable teaching tool for discussing social justice, rogue states, and the importance of understanding moral psychology in international relations.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: Defining Strategic Moral Diplomacy	p. 1
The Enemy's Moral Universe	p. 3
Absolutism Versus Relativism Is Not the Question or the Answer	p. 4
Critical Caveats	p. 6
Four Case Studies	p. 8
Overview of the Chapters	p. 9
Strategic Moral Diplomacy in Theory	p. 13
Conventional Wisdom: Moral Misperception	p. 14
Rules of Moral Salience: An Alternative to Conventional Wisdom	p. 16
Moral Tensions with World Order	p. 20
Political Decision Making: Embedded in Cognitive Moral Metaphors	p. 21
Rational Choice and Bounded Rationality	p. 22
Constructions of Ethical Norms and International justice	p. 24
Exile of a King: Rules of Moral and Legal Salience	p. 29
A Special Relationship	p. 30
King of Kings	p. 32
A Flying Dutchman	p. 34
Mexico Offers an Invitation	p. 40
A Matter of Principle	p. 41
Humanitarian Considerations	p. 43
The Making of a Crisis	p. 45
Hamilton Jordan and the General	p. 48
A Question of Extradition	p. 51
Legal Issues	p. 53
Back to Panama and the Question of Extradition	p. 54
Sadat's Stand	p. 56
Rules of Moral and Legal Salience	p. 58
The Lockerbie Negotiations: Granting the Enemy a Moral Universe	p. 63
Mandela and Qaddafi: Commonalities and Differences	p. 64
Background	p. 67
Pan Am Flight 103	p. 68
Jim Swire's Mission	p. 71
Reasonable Fears: Nelson Mandela's Moral Capital	p. 74
Calling Bluffs	p. 75
Clarifications	p. 77
ôTake It or Leave Itö	p. 79
And the Beat Goes On	p. 82
Analysis: Granting the Enemy's Moral Universe	p. 84
Haiti's Generals: Reframing Fixed Conflict Situations	p. 89
Lost in Translation	p. 90
The Coup from Above and Below	p. 92
Lavalas and Its Aftermath	p. 93
A Radical Priest and a Reluctant General	p. 95
The Priest	p. 95
The General	p. 97
The Military in Haitian Society: Problems and Context	p. 100
International Reaction to the Coup	p. 102
Governor's Island	p. 104
ôIs the Bird Alive or Dead?ö	p. 106
Batten Down the Hatches	p. 108
A Dream Team: Carter, Nunn, and Powell	p. 110
The Kitchen Cabinet	p. 113
The Stick: Black Hawk Helicopters on the Way	p. 115
Of Amnesty and Exile	p. 116
Postscript	p. 118
Analysis: Reframing Fixed-Conflict Situations	p. 118
Zimbabwe's Land Seizures: Just Claims and Avoidable Losses	p. 125
From Ndebele to Rhodesia	p. 126
Robert Mugabe: An Unlikely Revolutionary	p. 128
From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: The Lancaster Agreement	p. 130
Gukurahundi	p. 133
Britain's Big Blunder	p. 135
Economic Problems	p. 138
South Africa: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	p. 140
The West and the Rest	p. 142
Analysis: Just Claims and Avoidable Losses	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 149
Strategic Moral Diplomacy's Contributions	p. 153
Closing Comments	p. 156
Notes	p. 159
Works Cited	p. 173
About the Author	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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