Frost, Mervyn.

Global ethics anarchy, freedom & international relations / [electronic resource] : Mervyn Frost. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - ix, 182 p. - Critical issues in global politics ; 1 . - Critical issues in global politics ; 1. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ubiquity of ethics in international relations -- International ethics : thick or thin? -- Taking the ethical turn -- Social practices, actors and ethics -- Power, politics and ethics -- The primacy of ethics -- Understanding international relations in ethical terms -- War in Iraq understood in ethical terms : the Baker Hamilton report and other interpretations -- Global ethical practices -- The anarchical society of sovereign states -- The anarchical society of civilians : global civil society -- Ethical incoherence : individual rights versus states' rights -- Rights and sovereignty : reframing the tension -- The ethical underpinning of double anarchy -- Ethical transformation in a double anarchy -- Migrants in world politics -- Assessing humanitarian intervention -- Assessing globalization -- Understanding torture in international relations -- Global terrorism understood in ethical terms -- The threat of self destruction in civil society -- The threat of self destruction in the society of sovereign states -- Defending anarchies.




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International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.


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