Force, order, and justice: The ethics of realism in statecraft [1993]

The current Bosnian tragedy, or crime and tragedy in the view of many, highlights in the starkest fashion the dilemmas that moral judgments pose for statecraft. Indeed, the events of 1992-93 in the former Yugoslavia demonstrate all too clearly just how ill-prepared are both politicians and the general public to handle moral impulses, ethical considerations, and genuinely complex conflict cases.