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Ethics in international relations : a constitutive theory

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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 that 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.

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LEN 172.4 FRO

Publisher

United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press., 1996

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x, 251 p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0521555051

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172.4

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International relations
International relations--Moral and ethical aspects

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Statement of Responsibility

Mervym Frost

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