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Five uneasy pieces : American ethics in a globalized world / Mark Gibney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibney, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--United States.
- Ethics.
- International economic relations.
- International relations.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- Moral conditions.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 203 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]
- Summary:
- Americans pride themselves on being an ethical people. They go to church, quote the Bible, erect statues, and discuss morality with abandon. They also trust their government to do the right thing when it comes to delivering legal justice and conducting foreign policy. Trouble is, American foreign policy has yielded some pretty spectacular ethical lapses, and (as 9/11 starkly demonstrated) the world is beginning to notice. Here, Mark Gibney lays out some of the most egregious insults the U.S. has visited upon international law, economic justice, and human rights in recent times. He covers everything from multinational corporations, the first Persian Gulf war, and Guantanamo Bay, to American refugee policy, foreign aid, and global environmental degradation. Through all these examples, he exposes the discrepancy between the guise of ethical policy motivation and the reality of situational international ethics--or worse. He shows us how we practice 'easy ethics' in an uneasy world, and how it is beginning to catch up with us.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Ethics in (and out of) American life
- Law, ethics, and the overseas operations of U.S. multinational corporations
- Confining our constitution
- A case called Koohi: American ethical and legal standards in the realm of "foreign affairs"
- American refugee policy and the pretense of morality
- American ethics: "easy" does it
- Facing our past
- Our brothers' keeper
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742535886
- 0742535894
- OCLC:
- 54753569
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