Strategic Moral Diplomacy:

Is it possible for nations to negotiate in the context of seemingly incompatible moral values? Lyn Boyd-Judson answers yes—and argues that it can be strategically useful, as well as ethical, to assume that an enemy has just moral concerns.

Boyd-Judson uses the US and UN negotiations with Iran, Libya, Zimbabwe, and Haiti to illustrate the practical application of strategic moral diplomacy. Drawing on personal interviews with negotiators and their colleagues, she unearths the complex moral positions held by those involved and arrives at workable suggestions for future diplomatic dilemmas.