Rethinking ethical foreign policy
Subtitle: pitfalls, possibilities and paradoxes
By: edited by David Chandler and Volker Heins.
Contributors: Chandler, David.; Heins, Volker, 1957-
Series: Routledge advances in international relations and global politics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "This new book goes beyond current debates which locate the limitations to ethical foreign policy in the strategic and economic interests of nation-states. Rather than counter-posing interests and ethics, trying to find 'hidden agendas', or emphasizing the double standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this text brings together leading international theorists in order to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy and to analyse the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. The book comprises three clear sections that explore: theoretical issues, techniques and tactics of ethical intervention, and the geography/space of ethical intervention. The authors deal with the limits of 'ethical foreign policy' both in the light of the internal dynamic of these policies themselves and with regard to the often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethics and foreign policy : new perspectives on an old problem / Volker  Heins and David Chandler; title: Geographies of ethical intervention : neo-Wilsonianism : the limits of American ethical foreign policy / Alex Gourevitch; title: Crusaders and snobs : moralizing foreign policy in Britain and Germany, 1999-2005 / Volker Heins; title: Poor man's ethics? : peacekeeping and the contradictions of ethical ideology / Philip Cunliffe; title: Theoretical issues; title: The "West divided" : law and ethics in foreign policy / Peter Niesen; title: European Union, normative power and ethical foreign policy / Ian Manners; title: Moral judgments on international interventions : a Bosnian perspective / Isabelle Delpla; title: Techniques and tactics of ethical intervention; title: The other-regarding ethics of the "empire in denial" / David Chandler; title: Agents of truth and justice : truth commissions and the transitional justice epistemic community / Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch; title: Precision in uncertain times : targeting as a mode of justification of the use of force / Ariel Colonomos; title: Trusteeship and contemporary international society / William Bain.