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Ethics in International Relations

A Constitutive Theory

  • Paperback
  • 268 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.2 x 22.8 x 2 cm

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For scholars and students of international politics

Addresses the neglect of ethics in global issues

You will gain a deeper understanding of moral frameworks

This book explores the ethical dimensions of international relations.

Most questions commonly asked about international politics are ethical ones. Should the international community intervene in Bosnia? What do we owe the starving in Somalia? What should be done about the genocide in Rwanda? Yet, Mervyn Frost argues, ethics is accorded a marginal position within the academic study of international relations. In this book he examines the reasons given for this, and finds that they do not stand up to scrutiny. He goes on to evaluate those ethical theories which do exist within the discipline - order based theories, utilitarian theories, and rights based theories - and finds them unconvincing. He elaborates his own ethical theory, constitutive theory, which is derived from Hegel, and highlights the way in which we constitute one another as moral beings through a process of reciprocal recognition within a hierarchy of institutions which include the family, civil society, the state, and the society of states.
Ethics in International Relations and Global Ethics
Global EthicsEthics in International Relations

  • Title

    Ethics in International Relations

  • Author

    Mervyn Frost

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    March 1996

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    268

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.8 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521555302

  • ISBN-10

    0521555302

  • Eden Code

    4575224

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