Global ethics:anarchy, freedom and international relations

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Frost Mervyn.
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: London New York
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Critical issues in global politics
Subjects:
Carrier Form: ix, 182 p.: ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9780415466097 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415466091 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415466103 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415466105 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780203890585 (ebook)
0203890582 (ebook)
Index Number: D81
CLC: D81-05
D80
Call Number: D81-05/F939
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-177) and index.
The ubiquity of ethics in international relations -- International ethics : thick or thin? -- Taking the ethical turn -- Social practices, actors and ethics -- Power, politics and ethics -- The primacy of ethics -- Understanding international relations in ethical terms -- War in Iraq understood in ethical terms : the Baker Hamilton report and other interpretations -- Global ethical practices -- The anarchical society of sovereign states -- The anarchical society of civilians : global civil society -- Ethical incoherence : individual rights versus states' rights -- Rights and sovereignty : reframing the tension -- The ethical underpinning of double anarchy -- Ethical transformation in a double anarchy -- Migrants in world politics -- Assessing humanitarian intervention -- Assessing globalization -- Understanding torture in international relations -- Global terrorism understood in ethical terms -- The threat of self destruction in civil society -- The threat of self destruction in the society of sovereign states -- Defending anarchies.