Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs [electronic resource] : Arguments from the Middle Ground /
Navari, C.editor.
Arguing for a middle ground between idealism and realism, this book considers the most pressing ethical and moral issues in contemporary international politics, including intervention, human rights and aid, and sets about reasoning how to resolve them in politically realistic ways.
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Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Terrain of the Middle Ground; 2 Are We Linguistically Left-Handed? In Search of Responsible, Ethical Subjects; 3 Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice; 4 Middle-Ground Ethics and Human Rights in International Relations; 5 Theorizing Secession: What Should Be the Relationship between the Ideal and the Empirical?; 6 Global Constitutionalism as a Middle-Ground Ethic; 7 Beyond Order versus Justice: Middle-Ground Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect
8 Hedley Bull and John Dewey: Two Middle Grounders and a Pragmatic Approach to the Nuclear Dilemma9 The Ethics of War, Innocence, and Hard Cases: A Call for the Middle Ground; 10 Authoritarianism, Anti-imperialism, and Intervention: The Precariousness of the Middle Ground; 11 Power Transitions, Emerging Powers, and the Shifting Terrain of the Middle Ground; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Arguing for a middle ground between idealism and realism, this book considers the most pressing ethical and moral issues in contemporary international politics, including intervention, human rights and aid, and sets about reasoning how to resolve them in politically realistic ways.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Ethics.
International relations.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
International Relations.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.