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Is There an Ethic to NATO?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

Robert L. Phillips
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Abstract

The Soviet ruling class, thwarted in its expansionist aims and beset by economic ills, sought to enjoy the fruits of Western culture without risking war, by a policy of “Finlandization” or neutralization of Europe. Phillips, writing in 1987, maintains that NATO had as great a moral duty to check this political ambition as it had to check Soviet military aggression. He suggests ways to reaffirm the rule of law and the commitment to social justice and to build such values into Western foreign policy, rather than use them as public relations tinsel.

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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 1 , March 1987, pp. 211 - 219
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1987

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2 Brodie, Bernard, War and Politics (New York: Macmillan, 1973) 376Google Scholar.

3 O'Brien, William, “Special Operations in the 1980's: American Moral, Legal and Cultural Restraints.” in Special Operations in U.S. Strategy (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1984)76Google Scholar.

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6 I have discussed some concrete programs to this end elsewhere. See, for example, War and Justice (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984) chap. 4Google Scholar.