Ethics and foreign policy / edited by Karen E. Smith and Margot Light.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Karen Elizabeth, editor.

Light, Margot, editor.

Series:

LSE monographs in international studies.

LSE monographs in international studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

International relations.

Diplomacy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Diplomacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ethics & Foreign Policy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The promotion of human rights, the punishment of crimes against humanity, the use of force with respect to humanitarian intervention: these are some of the complex issues facing governments in recent years. The contributors to this book offer a theoretical and empirical approach to these issues. Three leading normative theorists first explore what an 'ethical foreign policy' means. Four contributors then look at potential or actual instruments of ethical foreign policy-making: the export of democracy, non-governmental organisations, the International Criminal Court, and bottom-up public pressure on governments. Finally, three case studies examine more closely developments in the foreign policies of the US, the UK, and the European Union, to assess the difficulties raised by the incorporation of ethical considerations into foreign policy.

Contents:

Ethics, interests and foreign policy / Chris Brown

The ethics of humanitarian intervention: protecting civilians to make democratic citizenship possible / Mervyn Frost

A pragmatist perspective on ethical foreign policy / Molly Cochran

Exporting democracy / Margot Light

Ethical foreign policies and human rights: dilemmas for non-governmental organisations / Margo Picken

The international criminal court / Spyros Economides

Constructing an ethical foreign policy: analysis and practice from below / K.M. Fierke

The United States and the ethics of post-modern war / Christopher Coker

Blair's Britain: a force for good in the world? / Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler

The EU, human rights and relations with third countries: 'foreign policy' with an ethical dimension? / Karen E. Smith.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12358-5

0-511-04392-9

0-521-80415-9

1-280-43339-6

0-511-49169-7

0-511-32844-3

0-511-15456-9

0-511-17460-8

OCLC:

70725558