Lawfare Archive: Joseph Nye on "Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump"
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🗓️ 22 August 2021
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From March 7, 2020: We ask a lot of questions about foreign policy on this podcast. Why do certain countries make certain decisions? What are the interests of the players in question? What are the consequences and, of course, the legality of foreign policy choices. In a new book, Joseph Nye, professor emeritus and former dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, asks another question about foreign policy. Do morals matter? Jack Goldsmith sat down with Nye to discuss his new book, 'Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump.' They discussed the ethical and theoretical factors by which Nye judged each president before going through many of the cases he focuses on in the book.
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| 0:29.0 | This is Rochini Kurope with an episode from the Archives for Sunday, August 22, 2021. |
| 0:45.0 | All lies are on Afghanistan this week after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban last weekend. |
| 0:51.0 | The Biden administration has faced intense criticism in the past week |
| 0:55.0 | for the United States' chaotic evacuation efforts, |
| 0:57.0 | and particularly for neglecting American partners in Afghanistan. |
| 1:01.0 | Some have called it a moral failing. |
| 1:03.0 | It's a good time to revisit an episode of the LawFair podcast from March 2020, |
| 1:08.0 | where Jack Goldsmith sat down with Joseph Nye, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, |
| 1:13.0 | to talk about US presidents and foreign policy through the lens of morality. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Mikhail Afogal, and this is the LawFair podcast March 7, 2020. |
| 1:26.0 | We ask a lot of questions about foreign policy on this podcast, |
| 1:30.0 | why do certain countries make certain decisions? |
| 1:33.0 | What are the interests of the players in question? |
| 1:36.0 | What are the consequences and of course the legality of foreign policy choices? |
| 1:40.0 | In a new book, Joseph Nye, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, |
| 1:46.0 | asks another question about foreign policy. |
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