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International relations. Foreign policy --- International relations --- World politics --- International relations. --- World politics.

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For more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one of the foremost realist thinkers on foreign policy. Clear and incisive as well as a fearlessly honest analyst, his coauthored 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, aroused a firestorm with its unflinching look at the making of America's Middle East policy. Now he takes a look at another controversial but understudied aspect of international relations: lying.In Why Leaders Lie, Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits. Drawing on a wealth of examples, he argues that leaders often lie for good strategic reasons, so a blanket condemnation is unrealistic and unwise. Yet there are other kinds of deception besides lying, including concealment and spinning. Perhaps no distinction is more important than that between lying to another state and lying to one's own people. Mearsheimer was amazed to discover how unusual interstate lying has been; given the atmosphere of distrust among the great powers, he found that outright deceit is difficult to pull off and thus rarely worth the effort. Moreover, it sometimes backfires when it does occur. Khrushchev lied about the size of the Soviet missile force, sparking an American build-up. Eisenhower was caught lying about U-2 spy flights in 1960, which scuttled an upcoming summit with Krushchev. Leaders are more likely to mislead their own publics than other states, sometimes with damaging consequences. Though the reasons may be noble--Franklin Roosevelt, for example, lied to the American people about German U-boats attacking the destroyer USS Greer in 1940, to build a case for war against Hitler-they can easily lead to disaster, as with the Bush administration's falsehoods about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.There has never been a sharp analysis of international lying. Now a leading expert provides a richly informed and powerfully argued work that will change our understanding of why leaders lie

General ethics --- International relations. Foreign policy --- International relations --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Political ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Political aspects.

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International relations. Foreign policy --- National movements --- France --- Rwanda --- Tauzin, Didier. --- History --- Participation, French. --- Atrocities. --- Armed Forces --- Histoire --- Participation des Français --- Atrocités --- Participation des Français --- Atrocités --- Operation Turquoise, 1994 --- Opération Turquoise, 1994 --- Tauzin, Didier --- Forces armées

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Southeast Asia --- East Asia --- World politics --- Politique mondiale --- Extrême-Orient --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Foreign relations. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Relations extérieures --- Extrême-Orient --- Relations extérieures

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The Puzzle of Politics brings together for the first time a collection of his key essays to explain his approach to international relations and how his thinking has developed over the last 30 years. It addresses topical themes and issues central to his work including sovereignty, law, epistemology, boundaries, global governance and world society.

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