Ethics and Global Politics: Ethics and Global Politics
About the Book Series
Since the end of the Cold War, explorations of ethical considerations within global politics and on the development of foreign policy have assumed a growing importance in the fields of politics and international studies. New theories, policies, institutions, and actors are called for to address difficult normative questions arising from the conduct of international affairs in a rapidly changing world. This series provides an exciting new forum for creative research that engages both the theory and practice of contemporary world politics, in light of the challenges and dilemmas of the evolving international order.
Cosmopolitan Global Politics
1st Edition
By Patrick Hayden
February 27, 2017
Cosmopolitan conceptions of justice in global politics are gaining in importance in the field of international political theory. Cosmopolitanism claims that we owe duties of justice to all the persons of the world and thus that normative theories of global politics should focus first on the ...
Ethics in an Era of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Wim Vandekerckhove, M. S. Ronald Commers
November 29, 2016
This much-needed volume represents all that is new in the field of global ethics. It recognizes the emergence of the search to move beyond relativism and the study of ethical aspects of globalization, acknowledging aspects of globalization that make ethical reasoning itself a challenging task. As ...
Ethical Foreign Policy?: US Humanitarian Interventions
1st Edition
By Chih-Hann Chang
November 24, 2016
While the 1990s gave rise to a wealth of literature on the notion of ethical foreign policy, it has tended to simply focus on a version of realism, which overlooks the role of ethics in international affairs, lacking an empirical analysis of foreign policy decision-making, with relation to ethical ...
Towards the Dignity of Difference?: Neither 'End of History' nor 'Clash of Civilizations'
1st Edition
By Mojtaba Mahdavi, W. Andy Knight
November 15, 2016
The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History' and Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations.' The quest for genuine democracy...
Who's Afraid of Children?: Children, Conflict and International Relations
1st Edition
By Helen Brocklehurst
November 15, 2016
Brocklehurst's impressive work breaks new ground in normative international political theory. It develops a new theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices using an empirical and comparative assessment of the role of children and ...
Peaceful Resistance: Advancing Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms
1st Edition
By Robert M. Press
October 19, 2016
An innovative study that examines how peaceful, domestic tactics by individual human rights activists and organizational activists, with public support, can force an authoritarian regime to make key concessions. Robert Press explores the creation and impact of a culture of resistance. He examines ...
Fighting for Rights: From Holy Wars to Humanitarian Military Interventions
1st Edition
By Tal Dingott Alkopher
March 19, 2013
In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights? How did rights, be they divine rights in the Middle Ages, territorial rights in the eighteenth century, or human rights today, become something that people are ...
Justice and Morality: Human Suffering, Natural Law and International Politics
1st Edition
By Amanda Russell Beattie
February 28, 2010
Bridging the contending theories of natural law and international relations, this book proposes a 'relational ontology' as the basis for rethinking our approach to international politics. Amanda Beattie challenges both the conventional interpretation of natural law as necessarily and intractably ...
Bloody Nations: Moral Dilemmas for Nations, States and International Relations
1st Edition
By Cherry Bradshaw
September 19, 2008
The dominance of nationalism as ideology and the resurgence of nationalist and ethnic conflict since the end of the Cold War both demand further analysis of the complex interplay between nation, state, sovereignty and self determination. Contrary to many commentators who regard nationalism today ...
Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill?
1st Edition
By Avery Plaw
September 19, 2008
Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? examines the political history and ethics of targeted killing. Avery Plaw's analysis addresses the questions of moral, political and legal justification in the context of the current 'war on terror' and of legitimate/illegitimate forms of counter-terrorism ...
From Terrorism to Politics
1st Edition
By Anisseh Van Engeland, Rachael M. Rudolph
June 28, 2008
How do terrorists become politicians? This book embraces a series of comparative case studies in order to examine important issues regarding the relationship between terrorism and political processes. It identifies the characteristics necessary for the transition from a 'terrorist' organization to ...
Emerging Conflicts of Principle: International Relations and the Clash between Cosmopolitanism and Republicanism
1st Edition
By Thomas Kane
May 28, 2008
Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today. According to the...