Ethics in International Affairs: Theories and Cases

by Andrew Valls (Editor), Andrew Valls (Editor)

Ethics in International Affairs brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of scholars to address the major issues in international ethics. Touching on theoretical debates and examining engaging case studies, this volume looks at issues of morality and international affairs, just war theory, terrorism, political violence, humanitarian intervention, and global distributive justice. Cases include the Persian Gulf War; the use of chemical weapons in Vietnam; terrorism in Northern Ireland and the Middle East; intervention in civil conflicts in Africa; GermanyOs recognition of Slovenia and Croatia; the moral duties of multinationals; and the fate of the New International Economic Order. This collection of original essays will be valuable to students and scholars of international ethics and international affairs.

264 pages, Paperback

First published March 22, 2000

Reviews

[Ismoil Sadullozoda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book contains a good discussion about the theoretical framework of ethics in international affairs (just war). It contains articles from different authors that use mainly just war theory and apply to different events to justify them, such as terrorism, humanitarian intervention, etc.

Part I, II, and V (11) are theoretical and give a good explanation of the concepts and theories that can be used to apply in a different context to find out justification.

I liked the first article in part V by Peter Jones. He discusses Global Distributive Justice using Rawls' theory of original position in the international dimension.
The rest of the book is mainly empirical case studies.

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting volume on international ethics from scholars mostly trained in analytic philosophy.