书名: Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations (Critical Issues in Global Politics)
作者: Mervyn Frost (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (November 20, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415466105
ISBN-13: 978-0415466103
Book Description
This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. International actors are always faced with the ethical question: so, what ought we to do in circumstances like these?
Illustrating the centrality of ethics to our understanding of global politics and global civil society with detailed case studies, Frost shows how international actors constitute one another in global social practices that are underpinned by specific ethical commitments.
Case Studies examined in this title include:
About the Author
Mervyn Frost is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of War Studies, King's College, London. Educated at Stellenbosch and Oxford, he has held appointments at Rhodes University, the University of Natal and Kent University. His major publications are: Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1986), Ethics in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States (London, Routledge, 2002).
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作者: Mervyn Frost (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (November 20, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415466105
ISBN-13: 978-0415466103
Book Description
This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. International actors are always faced with the ethical question: so, what ought we to do in circumstances like these?
Illustrating the centrality of ethics to our understanding of global politics and global civil society with detailed case studies, Frost shows how international actors constitute one another in global social practices that are underpinned by specific ethical commitments.
Case Studies examined in this title include:
- The War on Iraq
- The ‘Global War on Terror’
- Iran
- Human Rights
- Globalization and Migration
- The use of Private Military Companies
About the Author
Mervyn Frost is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of War Studies, King's College, London. Educated at Stellenbosch and Oxford, he has held appointments at Rhodes University, the University of Natal and Kent University. His major publications are: Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1986), Ethics in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States (London, Routledge, 2002).
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