Ethics in International Relations

A Constitutive Theory

By:

Mervyn Frost

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

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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.

Release date Australia

March 21st, 1996

Author

Mervyn Frost

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

268

Series

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

Dimensions

152x228x21

ISBN-13

9780521555302

Product ID

2364236

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