Ethics and Global Security: A Cosmopolitan Approach

ISBN-13: 9780415663229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 232 str.

Anthony David Burke; Katrina Lee-Koo; Matt McDonald

Opis

This book will be the first systematic examination of the role that ethics plays in international security in both theory and practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global security. Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to global security, from the death camps, world wars and H-bombs of the 20th century, to the humanitarian missions, tsunamis, terrorism and refugees of the 21st. This book goes beyond the Just War tradition to demonstrate how ethical commitments influence security theory, policy and international law, across a range of pressing global challenges. The book highlights how, from patrolling a territorial border to maintaining armed forces, security practices have important ethical implications, by excluding some from consideration, presenting others as potential threats and exposing them to harm, and licensing particular actions. While many scholars and practitioners of security claim little interest in ethics, ethics clearly has an interest in them.

Recenzje

"Ethics and Global Security is a thoughtful, honest and timely book. It offers refreshingly optimistic thinking on security at a time when critical security studies seem unable to move beyond the impasse of securitization and desecuritization." - Fiona Robinson, E-International Relations, 2016

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Paradigms  2. Identity  3. Force 4. Environment 5. Terror 6. Humanitarianism Conclusion