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The Rule of Reverse Results

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The Rule of Reverse Results book

The Effects of Unethical Policies?

The Rule of Reverse Results

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The Rule of Reverse Results book

The Effects of Unethical Policies?
ByAudrey Wells
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 12 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553184
Pages 146 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315553184
SubjectsPolitics & International Relations
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Wells, A. (2016). The Rule of Reverse Results. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553184

Do extreme, unethical governmental policies often produce results opposite to those intended? This book considers the ironic outcomes of recent global events and concludes that there is a 'rule of reverse results' at work. While not a hard and fast law, the rule points out the increased probability that a policy will backfire if it is immoral while ethical policies, even if extreme, are unlikely to produce reverse results. The issue here is that of increased likelihood but not of certainty. Governments can never be sure as to the effects of their actions: to some extent they are always working in the dark. But if the motivation is right, moral and humane the policies will not often produce adverse results the opposite of those intended. Based on events in global history in the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries the chapters can each be read individually, as well as being part of the argument.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

SECTION 1 Israel

chapter 1|16 pages

Israel has caused its own insecurity together with that of the USA

part |2 pages

SECTION 2 Western intervention in Islamic states

chapter 2|4 pages

The USA and Britain helped to bring about the Islamic Revolution in Iran

chapter 3|10 pages

Bush and Blair opened Iraq to al-Qaeda and ISIS

chapter 4|7 pages

In Afghanistan the USA trained future members of al-Qaeda and American foreign policy backfired

chapter 5|9 pages

The West opened Libya to Islamic terrorism

part |2 pages

SECTION 3 China and Russia

chapter 6|8 pages

Mao turned China capitalist

chapter 7|6 pages

Stalin caused the collapse of the Soviet Union

part |2 pages

SECTION 4 The Second World War

chapter 8|4 pages

France helped cause the Second World War

chapter 9|2 pages

Churchill helped cause the Blitz

part |2 pages

SECTION 5 Genocide

chapter 10|10 pages

Hitler and the Nazis created Israel

chapter 11|2 pages

Genocide backfired in Bosnia and Kosovo

part |2 pages

SECTION 6 Massacres with apparently no reverse results

chapter 12|2 pages

Rwanda, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Darfur and ISIS

part |2 pages

SECTION 7 Further unethical policies that have not produced reverse results

chapter 13|2 pages

American imperialism in Latin America – exception Cuba

chapter 14|2 pages

Recent European imperialism

part |2 pages

SECTION 8 Peacemakers with positive results

chapter 15|8 pages

Mahatma Gandhi and non-violent protest

chapter 16|4 pages

Nelson Mandela and reconciliation

chapter 17|4 pages

Robert Schuman and forgiveness

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