Abstract
No country today can have a completely independent foreign policy. Perhaps this was always true, but it was not always seen to be true. Hence the innumerable wars to which the system of sovereign states has given rise. But today there is the difference that no state, however powerful, really believes (though some still pretend to believe it) that it can exercise and enforce its will regardless of others. Minor powers of course always had to recognise this fact, though paradoxically some minor powers nowadays, like Uganda under President Amin, can literally get away with murder. Major powers, on the other hand, have only recently learned the lesson: the French and British Governments in the Middle East in 1956, the Soviet Government in the Cuba crisis of 1962, the US Government in Vietnam between 1965 and 1975.KeywordsForeign PolicySecurity CouncilMoral ObligationNational InterestMoral ConsiderationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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