ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ethical challenges and defends the ethics of security cosmopolitanism against a range of critical objections. It sets out the philosophical basis of its ethics in a systematic way, and lays out its argument in philosophical language and concepts a specialised language that is needed to explain its underlying architecture. The responsibility of all states and security actors is to create deep and enduring security for all human beings in a form harmonises human social, economic, cultural and political activity with the integrity of global ecosystems. Security cosmopolitanism is a critical theory, in that it believes that the critical application of reason and normative argument can address the challenges, injustices and contradictions of capitalist and postcolonial modernity. One of the most thorough statements of the anti-security position has come from Mark Neocleous, whose book Critique Of Security traced the development of the discursive practice of security through Western political thought into the contemporary national security state.
