How does an ethical framework get translated or actualized in our foreign policy or in international affairs?
JOEL ROSENTHAL: First thing I would do is expand the notion of international affairs beyond states and official policy. You have actors in the corporate sector, private sector, media sector, that are powerful actors in international affairs. As an example, the idea of corporate social responsibility—these are indicators of the importance of ethics. In the way we look at the world, there are issues of global concern or global scope that have an obvious ethical component to them—climate change, financial systems, economic arrangements, issues of labor, human rights, migration. We could go on and you could fill in the blank. THE CURRENT: This issue of The Current contains an article on shifts in realism over time, authored by Nick Serpe. Do you think there will be a shift toward realism in U.S. foreign policy? JOEL ROSENTHAL: I think we’re already seeing it, for sure. I would define realism as being less ideological than what we’ve seen. Some of it was rhetorical and some of substantive,
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