| Description |
xii, 484 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ethics through the Cold War and After / Joel H. Rosenthal -- Pt. I. Theory. Speaking Truth to Power: The Quest for Equality in Freedom / Robert J. Myers. The Political Ethics of International Relations / Stanley Hoffmann. Is Democratic Theory for Export? / Jacques Barzun. Normative Prudence As a Tradition of Statecraft / Alberto R. Coll -- Pt. II. Culture. Basic Moral Values: A Shared Core / Frances V. Harbour. Early Advocates of Lasting World Peace: Utopians or Realists? / Sissela Bok. Applying Confucian Ethics to International Relations / Cho-Yun Hsu. Human Rights and Asian Values / Amartya Sen. On Moral Equivalency and Cold War History / John Lewis Gaddis -- Pt. III. Issues. The Ethics of Collective Security / David C. Hendrickson. Post-Cold War Reflections on the Study of International Human Rights / Jack Donnelly. Humanitarian Intervention: An Overview of the Ethical Issues / Michael J. Smith |
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The Politics of Rescue: Yugoslavia's Wars and the Humanitarian Impulse / Amir Pasic and Thomas G. Weiss. NGOs and the Humanitarian Impulse: Some Have It Right / Andrew Natsios. An Emergency Response System for the International Community: Commentary on 'The Politics of Rescue' / Morton Winston. Holding Humanitarianism Hostage: The Politics of Rescue / Alain Destexhe. When Is It Right to Rescue? A Response to Pasic and Weiss / David R. Mapel. Drawing the Line on Opprobrious Violence / Augustus Richard Norton. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Ethical and Theological Perspectives / Lyn S. Graybill. Review Essay: The Psychology of Genocide / Kristen Renwick Monroe. International Ethics and the Environmental Crisis / Robert E. Goodin. Moral Minimums for Multinationals / Thomas Donaldson |
| Summary |
This collection of some of the best contemporary scholarship in ethics and international affairs explores the connection between moral traditions and decision making during and after the Cold War. Each author relates the timeless insights of philosophy and our collective historical experience to the hard choices of our own age. This volume should be of special interest to those working and teaching in international relations, diplomatic history, foreign policy, applied ethics, and related fields |
| Notes |
"Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Author |
Rosenthal, Joel H., 1960-
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Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs.
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| LC no. |
98045147 |
| ISBN |
0878407251 paper alkaline paper |
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