ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the pervasive problem of human suffering in international politics and offers a particular interpretation of international institutional design which draws on the morality of natural law. It draws on the critical possibility of natural law morality in order to articulate a more partial, relative and personal approach to relations within the international. The chapter demonstrates how these habits can facilitate a particular relationship of morality and ethics within the wider theatre of international politics and it envisions a role for natural law beyond the critical engagement with cosmopolitan theory articulated throughout this work. The casuistry of well-being reveals a predisposition to train agents in moral habits. Such habits, it is argued, arise within moral communities and serve a particular purpose. A caring civil service unites the ends of instrumental and non-instrumental relationships. It draws on the power and legitimacy of the state in order to facilitate the potential for collective moral agency.
