Does hypocrisy matter? The case of US foreign policy
Does hypocrisy matter? The case of US foreign policy
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DOI：
10.1017/s0260210506007017
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发表时间：
2006-04-01
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3
通讯作者：
Glaser, Daryl
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作者：
Glaser, Daryl
正如本文在广泛的实证审查过程中所展示的那样，美国的外交政策在各种方面都是虚伪的。问题是，这种伪善是否为反对美国的海外干预提供了理由，尤其是那些可能在可接受的人类代价下产生当地所希望的结果的干预。本文从非和平主义的自由普遍主义的立场审视了这个问题，并得出结论(基于结果主义的理由)，美国外交政策的虚伪特征不能构成拒绝美国所有干预的充分理由。然而，即使在这种情况下，美国的虚伪仍然值得注意和值得批评，因为虚伪的行为可能会造成更广泛的损害。此外，美国外交政策的虚伪有时会引发反应，扰乱特定干预的良性目的，从而削弱它们的理由。在美国最近对中东的干预中，这种影响正在发挥作用。
US foreign policy is hypocritical in various ways, as this article demonstrates in the course of an extensive empirical review. The question is whether such hypocrisy provides grounds for opposing US interventions abroad, in particular those which might yield locally desirable outcomes at an acceptable human cost. This article examines the question from the standpoint of a non-pacifist liberal universalism and concludes (on consequentialist grounds) that the hypocritical character of US foreign policy cannot constitute sufficient grounds for rejecting all US interventions. Nevertheless, the hypocrisy of the US remains noteworthy and deserving of criticism even in such cases because of the wider damage hypocritical behaviour can do. Moreover, US foreign policy hypocrisy sometimes sets in motion reactions that confound the benign purposes of particular interventions and so undermine the case for them. Such an effect is at work in the case of recent US intervention in the Middle East.