Principled Diplomacy: Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy. (book reviews)

Cathal J. Nolan ends this provocative study with two points that should have been in the first chapter. He finally tells the reader then (although it has long been evident) that he tends "to work out of the realist analytical tradition". Thus, it is not surprising that he shows considerable sympathy for executive officials like Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and others who sacrificed various human rights concerns for the "preservation of the basic economic and political infrastructure of the community of democratic nations".

He also finally makes clear that, like ...

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