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  • Vietnam Revised

  • Terry Nardin, Jerome Slater
  • Journal:
    World Politics / Volume 33 / Issue 3 / April 1981
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 June 2011, pp. 436-448
    Print publication:
    April 1981

  • Several recent studies of the Vietnam War challenge the generally accepted view that American policy in the war was a political and moral failure. It is now argued that “the system worked” because U.S. policy reflected a democratically formulated consensus, and that the military conduct of the war does not warrant the moral condemnation it has received. Each of these arguments is vitiated by factual and logical errors. The first reveals a failure to grasp the importance of constitutionalism and the rule of law in the American democracy. The second—that U.S. military methods were morally defensible—confuses morality with expediency, and rests on a mistaken understanding of the distinction between intentional and unintentional injury to noncombatants. If there is a case against the accepted view, it has yet to be made.

  • The Organization of American States and the Dominican Crisis

  • Jerome Slater
  • Journal:
    International Organization / Volume 23 / Issue 1 / Winter 1969
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 May 2009, pp. 48-72
    Print publication:
    Winter 1969

  • In recent years political scientists have given increasing attention to the phenomenon of legitimacy, defined, following Richard Merelman, as the quality of “oughtness” perceived by members of a political system to inhere in the system's authorities and/or regime. The more the regime is regarded as morally proper and elicits generalized favorable attitudes from its constituency—i.e., is perceived to be legitimate—the more the members are predisposed to comply with directives of the authorities even when they are under no serious compulsion to do so or their own immediate self-interest does not so dictate.

  • The United States, the Organization of American States, and the Dominican Republic, 1961–1963

  • Jerome Slater
  • Journal:
    International Organization / Volume 18 / Issue 2 / Spring 1964
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 May 2009, pp. 268-291
    Print publication:
    Spring 1964

  • The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion is now almost universally considered to be “one of those rare politico-military events—a perfect failure.” One of the conclusions usually derived from that affair is the general inadvisability of direct United States intervention in the internal affairs of other nations to bring about desired changes in their domestic political structures. Almost simultaneously, however, the United States was doing just that in the Dominican Republic with a considerable degree of success, indicating that the lessons of the Cuban experience should not be overdrawn.