Title Can institutions have responsibilities? : collective moral agency and international relations / edited by Toni Erskine

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) Series Global issues series Global issues series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) Contents Assigning responsibilities to institutional moral agents : the case of states and 'quasi-states' / Toni Erskine -- Moral responsibility and the problem of representing the state / David Runiciman -- Moral agency and international society : reflections on norms, the UN, the Gulf War, and the Kosovo campaign / Chris Brown -- Collective moral agency and the political process / Frances V. Harbour -- Constitutive theory and moral accountability : individuals, institutions, and dispersed practices / Mervyn Frost -- When agents cannot act : international institutions as 'moral patients' / Cornelia Navari -- NATO and the individual soldier as moral agents with reciprocal duties : imbalance in the Kosovo campaign / Paul Cornish, Frances V. Harbour -- The anti-sweatshop movement : constructing corporate moral agency in the global apparel industry / Rebecca DeWinter -- The responsibility of collective external bystanders in cases of genocide : the French in Rwanda / Daniela Kroslak -- The United Nations and the fall of Srebrenica : meaningful responsibility and international society / Anthony Lang, Jr. -- On 'good global governance', institutional design, and the practices of moral agency / Nicholas Rengger -- Global justice: aims, arrangements, and responsibilities / Christian Barry Summary Policy-makers, politicians, academics and the 'average person on the street' all tend to speak of formal organizations such as states, the UN and multinational corporations as bearing moral reponsibilities in international politics. We often refer to such bodies as having obligations to rescue, to feed or to provide membership to distant victims of, for example, violence, famine or persecution. If they fail to discharge these proposed duties, we condemn them. Can we coherently refer to institutions in international politics as bearers of moral burdens, or does moral agency only apply to individual human beings? As assumptions and assertions of duty and blame play such a prominent role in international politics - in supporting policies, condemning and condoning actions and placating publics - it is an important endeavour to question, clarify and perhaps correct these claims. Can Institutions have Responsibilities? aims to address and critically engage with this often implicitly invoked but under-theorized notion of institutions as bearers of moral burdens in international politics Analysis Humaniora Filosofi Notes This volume grew out of the papers and discussions from the BISA/ISA Joint Special Workshop, "Can Institutions Have Morals?", held at the University of Cambridge, 17-19 November, 2000 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject International organization -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses Responsibility -- Congresses POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects Responsibility Internationale betrekkingen. Internationale organisaties. Ethische aspecten. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Erskine, Toni, 1969- ISBN 1403948135 9781403948137 9781403938466 1403938466 9780333971291 0333971299 9781403917201 1403917205

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