Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415466103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str.

Mervyn Frost

Opis

Challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, this title argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. It is suitable for scholars and students of international relations.

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).