Ethics in International Relations

Ethics in International Relations by Mervyn Frost

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 which 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.

'Frost's is one of those rare works which is ambitious theoretically and provides responses to some pressing concrete problems, all the while opening up fruitful areas for further thoughtThe book … stands in my mind as one of the most important recent works on ethics and world affairs.' International Relations
' … an important and distinctive contribution to the discussion of ethics in international affairs.' Peace Research

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ISBN 13	9780521555302
ISBN 10	0521555302
Title	Ethics in International Relations
Author	Mervyn Frost
Series	Cambridge Studies In International Relations
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1996-03-21
Number of pages	268
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