ABSTRACT
Ethics and International Relations (IR), once considered along the margins of the IR field, has emerged as one of the most eclectic and interdisciplinary research areas today. Yet the same diversity that enriches this field also makes it a difficult one to characterize. Is it, or should it only be, the social-scientific pursuit of explaining and understanding how ethics influences the behaviours of actors in international relations? Or, should it be a field characterized by what the world should be like, based on philosophical, normative and policy-based arguments? This Handbook suggests that it can actually be both, as the contributions contained therein demonstrate how those two conceptions of Ethics and International Relations are inherently linked.
Seeking to both provide an overview of the field and to drive debates forward, this Handbook is framed by an opening chapter providing a concise and accessible overview of the complex history of the field of Ethics and IR, and a conclusion that discusses how the field may progress in the future and what subjects are likely to rise to prominence. Within are 44 distinct and original contributions from scholars teaching and researching in the field, which are structured around 8 key thematic sections:
- Philosophical Resources
- International Relations Theory
- Religious Traditions
- International Security and Just War
- Justice, Rights and Global Governance
- International Intervention
- Global Economics
- Environment, Health and Migration
Drawing together a diverse range of scholars, the Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations provides a cutting-edge overview of the field by bringing together these eclectic, albeit dynamic, themes and topics. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|69 pages
Philosophical Foundations
chapter 5|13 pages
Constructing realities in international politics
part II|81 pages
International relations theory
chapter 7|14 pages
Hunting the state of nature
chapter 9|16 pages
Truth and power, uncertainty and catastrophe
part III|73 pages
International security and just war
part IV|52 pages
Justice, rights and global governance
chapter 19|13 pages
The ethical terrain of international human rights
part V|54 pages
International intervention
part VI|66 pages
Environment, health and migration: the ethics of vulnerability
part VII|75 pages
Ethics and the global economy
chapter 29|14 pages
The ethics of alternative finance
chapter 32|18 pages
Biofuels and the ethics of global governance
part VIII|78 pages
Religion and international ethics