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Moral Standards in Foreign Policy
Wolff, Robert Paul | December 5, 1959 issue

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The article throws light on the moral standards in foreign policy. Nowadays, the vocabulary of ethics has been pre-empted in discussions of international relations by zealots who see the world situation as a death struggle between Western Christianity and Atheistic Communism. They endow every twist and turn of our foreign policy with the sanctity of divine law, confident that God is in their corner. Many Americans have been repelled by the smug arrogance of this attitude. In a world of ideology, they are suspicious of all self-serving moralism, preferring to drop "right" and "good" from the language of foreign affairs.

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PROFESSIONAL ethics; INTERNATIONAL relations; VOCABULARY; INTERNATIONAL trade; COMMUNISM; UNITED States
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