Values and realpolitik

Seen through a wider lens, foreign policy values will be contextual

Values in Foreign Policy: Investigating Ideals and Interests | Author: Krishnan Srinivasan, James Mayall, Sanjay Pulipaka (Eds) | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, London

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This is a fascinating study of a subject, both relevant and elusive. It should provoke reflection. The Introduction asks if there are discrete values that can be described as Asian, and if these exist, are they congruent or in completion with Western values? Eight of the book’s 14 chapters examine values in Asia, and the rest look at the West, the US, Europe and the Islamic world. 

In a succinct two-page forward, Robert Kaplan notes