Global ethics:anarchy, freedom and international relations
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Published: |
Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | London New York |
Publication Dates: | 2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Critical issues in global politics |
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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. |