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Title Ethical reasoning in international affairs : arguments from the middle ground / edited by Cornelia Navari
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave studies in international relations series
Palgrave studies in international relations.
Contents 1. The Terrain of the Middle Ground; Cornelia Navari -- 2. Are We Linguistically Left-Handed? In Search of Responsible, Ethical Subjects; Daniel Warner -- 3. Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice; Terry Nardin -- 4. Middle Ground Ethics and Human Rights; Mervyn Frost -- 5. Theorizing Secession: What should be the Relationship between the Ideal and the Empirical?; Mikulas Fabry -- 6. Global Constitutionalism as a Middle Ground Ethic; Anthony Lang Jr. -- 7. Beyond Order versus Justice: Middle Ground Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect; Mikael Baaz -- 8. Hedley Bull and John Dewey: Two Middle Grounders and a Pragmatic Approach to the Nuclear Dilemma; Molly Cochran -- 9. The Ethics of War, Innocence and Hard Cases: A Call for the Middle Ground; Milla Emilia Vaha -- 10. Authoritarianism, Anti-Imperialism and Intervention: The Precariousness of the Middle Ground; Chris Brown -- 11. Power Transitions, Emerging Powers and the Shifting Terrain of the Middle Ground; Andrew Hurrell
Summary This collection rejects excessive idealism in considering contemporary ethical dilemmas and returns to more classical styles of ethical reasoning, including pragmatism, legal realism and the virtuous life. Valuing pluralism and the ethical dilemmas that ensue from the multiplicity of values in contemporary international society, this book does not seek to solve by raising one value over others, but rather by seeking reconciliations. Arguing for a middle ground between idealism and realism, this book offers a fruitful starting point for studying international ethics, of war most obviously, but also of justice, human rights, intervention, succession and development ethics where universal ideals encounter real world obstacles to the accomplishment of principles of the good. The collection considers real-life situations and how to resolve them in ways that do not demand a total overthrow of the contemporary international order but that point to ways to ameliorate it. Bringing together renowned international scholars in the field, this book will appeal to scholars of international relations and international ethics, as well as diplomats
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
International relations.
Human rights.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Political ideologies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
International relations.
Human rights, civil rights.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Political ideologies.
Politics and Government.
Form Electronic book
Author Navari, Cornelia, 1941- editor.
ISBN 9781137290960
113729096X