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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458370703321

Titolo

Ethics & international affairs [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / Joel H. Rosenthal, Christian Barry, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-58901-315-8

1-58901-721-8

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Classificazione

89.70

Altri autori (Persone)

RosenthalJoel H. <1960->

BarryChristian

Disciplina

172/.4

Soggetti

International relations - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in cooperation with Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION; PART TWO: GROUNDS FOR INTERVENTION; PART THREE: GOVERNANCE, LAW, AND MEMBERSHIP; PART FOUR: GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of some of the best contemporary scholarship in ethics and international affairs explores the connection between moral traditions and decision making during and after the Cold War. Each author relates the timeless insights of philosophy and our collective historical experience to the hard choices of our own age. Building on the pioneering work of earlier writers in the 1970's and 1980's, this book offers organizing principles for the study of the field. This second edition has been expanded from seventeen to twenty-two essays, of which eleven are new. It includes new chapters on t