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"The Age of Amorality:  Can America save the liberal order through illiberal means?"

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Russ Roberts (https://trendsingeopolitics.blogspot.com).

April 6, 2024 | View in Browser Sponsored by the MIT Press This week, U.S. President Joe Biden threatened to reassess U.S. policy on Gaza if Israel did not do more to protect civilians and address the humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip, marking a major shift in tone from the president. Biden’s warning came days after an Israeli strike on a food aid convoy killed seven humanitarian workers associated with World Central Kitchen. The attack prompted a new wave of international outrage at Israel’s wartime conduct in Gaza, where famine looms and over 30,000 civilians have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.   If the world is truly stuck in a contest between democracy and autocracy, as the Biden administration claims, then the United States may need to make moral tradeoffs in foreign policy—but engaging in serious amorality will prove politically corrosive, writes Hal Brands. To protect the liberal order from the machinations of its rivals, “Washington will engage in some breathtakingly cynical behavior to keep its foes contained,” Brands writes. “Yet an ethos of pure expediency is fraught with dangers, from domestic disillusion to the loss of the moral asymmetry that has long amplified U.S. influence in global affairs.” The Age of Amorality Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means? By Hal Brands Advertisement: the MIT Press Bold new books in political science, racial justice, and tech and society   Explore a revealing exposé of the racial injustice embedded in the American prosecutorial system, an introduction to the simple (yet radical) model of universal basic income, an action-oriented field guide to patient-led healthcare, a study of how survivors living with long COVID are fighting for recognition, an investigation of data surveillance and generative AI, and more. Start reading now Subscribe for Unlimited Access. Choose an All Access or Digital subscription for the app, audio, our archive, and more. CLAIM OFFER © 2024 Council on Foreign Relations | 58 East 68 Street, New York NY | 10065 All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use Manage Your Email Preferences For support or to view your account information, visit ForeignAffairs.com/services. Reset your password here. To ensure we can contact you, please add us to your email address book or safe list. This email was sent to kh6jrm@gmail.com. Receiving too many emails? Unsubscribe here.

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