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  • 5 - Policymaking
  • Richard Ned Lebow, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Ethics and International Relations
  • Published online: 10 September 2020
  • Print publication: 01 October 2020, pp 128-176
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    Summary

    The political science, psychological, and organizational literature is replete with technical fixes for policymaking and assume s that better policymaking will result in better policy. I argue that that these fixes will not work or cannot be successfully applied and will not improve policy. I argue instead for ethical improvements in policymaking and identify what they are and where they should be applied.

Ethics and International Relations
  • Ethics and International Relations
  • A Tragic Perspective
  • Richard Ned Lebow
  • Published online: 10 September 2020
  • Print publication: 01 October 2020
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    Lebow demonstrates that foreign policies consistent with generally accepted ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail. Constructing original data sets and analyzing multiple case studies, Lebow makes an empirical case for ethics in international relations. His approach looks to create a productive dialogue between those who ask primarily 'ought' questions and those who pose 'is' questions.  The former want to establish appropriate criteria for the behaviour of state and non-state actors and the discourses that lead to their policy decisions, whereas scholars who pose 'is' questions are concerned with how political actors behave and the principles and assumptions that might explain their behaviour. Lebow bridges the gap between 'is' and 'ought' questions by making an instrumental argument in favour of ethical foreign policy. He examines policymaking as well as policy, offering ethical guidelines for policymaking that are likely to result in more successful policies.
  • 8 - Conclusions
  • Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London
  • Book: Reason and Cause
  • Published online: 29 February 2020
  • Print publication: 12 March 2020, pp 268-317
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    Summary

    A typology of reframings of the concepts of reason and cause in response to changes in society that make cause more important for people but also less accessible. A critique of social science based on this analysis.

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