Global Ethics : Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415466097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 192 str.

Frost Mervyn; Mervyn Frost

Opis

This provocative and original book provides a concise explanation of why global politics must be understood in ethical terms. Mervyn Frost illustrates the theory with a series of detailed case studies on the Iraq war, the war on terror, Iran, the use of private military companies, migration and terrorism and in so doing he forces the reader to confront their own necessary engagement as ethical citizens of a global society.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The ubiquity of ethics in international relations 1.1 International ethics: thick or thin? 1.2 Taking the ethical turn 1.3 Social practices, actors and ethics 1.4 Power, politics and ethics 1.5 The primacy of ethics 1.6 Understanding international relations in ethical terms 1.7 War in Iraq understood in ethical terms: the Baker Hamilton Report and other interpretations  2. Global ethical practices 2.1 The anarchical society of sovereign states 2.2 The anarchical society of civilians: global civil society  3. Ethical incoherence: Individual rights versus states’ rights 3.1 Rights and sovereignty: reframing the tension 3.2 The ethical underpinning of double anarchy 3.3 Ethical transformation in a double anarchy 3.4 Migrants in world politics 3.5 Assessing humanitarian intervention 3.6 Assessing globalization 3.7 Understanding torture in international relations  4. Global terrorism understood in ethical terms 4.1 The threat of self destruction in civil society 4.2 The threat of self destruction in the society of sovereign states  5. Defending anarchies

O autorze

Mervyn Frost is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, UK.  Educated at Stellenbosch and Oxford, he has held appointments at Rhodes University, the University of Natal, and the University of Kent. His major publications are: Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1986), Ethics in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States (London: Routledge, 2002).