Global Ethics

Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations

By Mervyn Frost

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• ISBN: 978-0-415-46610-3
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 26th September 2008
• Pages: 192

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About the Book

This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. International actors are always faced with the ethical question: So, what ought we to do in circumstances like these?

Illustrating the centrality of ethics to our understanding of global politics and global civil society with detailed case studies, Frost shows how international actors constitute one another in global social practices that are underpinned by specific ethical commitments.

Case Studies examined include:

• The War on Iraq
• The ‘Global War on Terror’
• Iran
• Human Rights
• Globalization and Migration
• The use of Private Military Companies.

Global Ethics forces readers to confront their own necessary ethical engagement as citizens and rights holders in global society. Failure to understand international relations in ethical terms will lead to misguided action. This book should be read by all scholars and students of international relations as well as the general reader seeking an accessible account of the importance of ethical decisions in world affairs.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The ubiquity of ethics in international relations 2. Global ethical practices 3. Ethical incoherence: Individual rights versus states’ rights 4. Global terrorism understood in ethical terms 5. Defending anarchies

About the Author(s)

Mervyn Frost is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, UK. Educated at Stellenbosch and Oxford, he has held appointments at Rhodes University, the University of Natal, and the University of Kent. His major publications are: Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1986), Ethics in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States (London: Routledge, 2002).

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