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International ethics / edited by Charles R. Beitz [and three others] ; contributors, Lawrence A. Alexander [and eleven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Lawrence A., Author.
- Series:
- Philosophy & public affairs reader ; 3.
- Philosophy & public affairs reader ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- International relations.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects.
- War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- PART I. THE CHALLENGE OF SKEPTICISM
- Moral Skepticism and International Relations
- PART II. MORALITY AND THE RULES OF WAR
- War and Massacre
- Conventions and the Morality of War
- War and Innocence
- Self-Defense and the Killing of Noncombatants: A Reply to Fullinwider
- PART III. DETERRENCE ETHICS
- Missiles and Morals: A Utilitarian Look at Nuclear Deterrence
- Doubts About Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament
- Disarmament Revisited: A Reply to Kavka and Hardin
- PART IV. THE MORAL STATUS OF THE NATION-STATE
- The Rights of Political Communities (excerpts from Just and Unjust Wars)
- Just War and Human Rights
- The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics
- The Romance of the Nation-State
- PART V. INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIANISM AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
- Famine, Affluence, and Morality
- Lifeboat Earth
- Justice and International Relations
- The Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691241869
- 0691241864
- OCLC:
- 1292356712
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