Books in the Ethics and Global Politics series

While the 1990s gave rise to a wealth of literature on the notion of ethical foreign policy, it has tended to simply focus on a version of realism, which overlooks the role of ethics in international affairs. This book explores ethical realism as a theoretical framework.

Acknowledges aspects of globalization that make ethical reasoning itself a challenging task. This volume sets out an agenda for the field of global ethics. It addresses the critiques of global ethics. It also illustrates the rapprochement of global ethics.

This work satisfies the need for a thorough assessment of environmental justice concerns at the global level. Using three international environmental case studies, it extends the theory of environmental justice to the international arena of environmental law, policy and politics.

A study that examines the interplay between domestic human rights policies and domestic resistance movements within authoritarian states. It explores the creation and impact of cultures of resistance on democracy movements and casts a critical lens on existing social movement theory. It is useful for those in the fields of international relations.

In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights? How did rights, be they divine rights in the Middle Ages, territorial rights in the eighteenth century, or human rights today, become something that people are willing to fight and die for.

Explores what theories of international ethics have to say about refugee policy. This volume presents a discussion of liberal political theory and its application to questions of international justice, and provides insights into the philosophical sources of debates on liberal versus restrictive approaches to refugee policy.

Examines the political history and ethics of targeted killing. This study addresses the questions of moral, political and legal justification and discusses contemporary issues surrounding targeted killing in the context of the 'war on terror' and legitimate/illegitimate forms of counter terrorism.

Develops theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices using an empirical and comparative assessment of the role of children and youth in a range of conflicts including Nazi Germany, Mozambique, South Africa, Northern Ireland, the Cold War and the British Empire.

Identifying and analyzing some of the major conflicts of principle which characterize world politics, this work includes debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community.

Placing the phenomenon of nationalism squarely within the modernist project, this book brings together political theory, history, cultural studies and international relations in order to investigate both the appeal and the dangers of nationalism in contemporary world politics.

Bridging the contending theories of natural law and international relations, this book proposes a 'relational ontology' as the basis for rethinking our approach to international politics. It challenges the conventional interpretation of natural law as necessarily and intractably theological, and the dominant conception of international relations.

Suggests that there is a 'third way' of addressing global tensions - one that rejects the extremes of both universalism and particularism. This book is suitable for those studying civilizations, globalization, foreign policy, peace and security studies, multiculturalism and ethnicity, global governance and international political economy.