Research Catalog

Title

Ethics & international affairs : a reader / Joel H. Rosenthal, Christian Barry, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Rosenthal, Joel H., 1960-
• Barry, Christian
• Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs.

Description

xv, 352 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs features some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics written by a group of distinguished political scientists, political theorists, philosophers, applied ethicists, and economics development specialists. Each contributor explores how moral theory can inform policy choices regarding topics such as war and intervention, international organizations, human rights, and global economic justice."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Ethics and international affairs

Subject

• International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
• Internationale betrekkingen
• Internationaal recht
• Ethiek

Note

• "Published in cooperation with Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• In defense of realism: a commentary on Just and unjust wars / David C. Hendrickson -- The slippery slope to preventive war / Neta C. Crawford -- Reckoning with past wrongs: a normative framework / David A. Crocker -- Humanitarian intervention: an overview of the ethical issues / Michael J. Smith -- The moral basis of humanitarian intervention / Terry Nardin -- Responsibility to protect or Trojan horse?: the crisis in Darfur and humanitarian intervention after Iraq / Alex J. Bellamy -- Ecological intervention: prospects and limits / Robyn Eckersley -- The legitimacy of global governance institutions / Allen Buchanan and Robert O. Keohane
• On the alleged conflict between democracy and international law / Seyla Benhabib -- "Saving Amina": global justice for women and intercultural dialogue / Alison M. Jaggar -- Who should get in?: the ethics of immigration admissions / Joseph H. Carens -- Models of international economic justice / Ethan B. Kapstein -- The invisible hand of the American empire / Robert Wade -- Accountability in international development aid / Leif Wenar -- World poverty and human rights / Thomas Pogge -- Do we owe the global poor assistance or rectification?: response to Pogge / Mathias Risse -- Baselines for determining harm: reply to Risse / Thomas Pogge.

ISBN

• 9781589012721 (paper back : alk. paper)
• 1589012720 (paper back : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008042359

OCLC

263408562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library