The Ethics of Foreign Policy (Ethics and Global Politics)

Assoc Prof David B. MacDonald (Editor), Professor Robert G. Patman (Editor), Betty Mason-Parker (Editor), Professor Patrick Hayden, and Professor Tom Lansford

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This ground-breaking volume considers the ethical aspects of foreign policy change through five interrelated dimensions: conceptual, security, economic, normative and diplomatic. Defining ethics and what an ethical foreign policy should be is highly contested. The book includes many very different viewpoints to reflect the strong divergence of opinion on such issues as humanitarian intervention, free trade, the doctrine of preemption, political corruption and human rights. The thematic approach provides this volume with a clear organizational structure, giving readers a balanced overview of a number of important conceptual and practical issues central to the ethical analysis of states' conduct and foreign policy making. An impressive group of international scholars and practitioners, including a New Zealand Foreign Minister, a US National Security Advisor, and an ICJ Justice, makes this volume ideally suited to courses on international relations, security studies, ethics and human rights, philosophy, media studies and international law.

  • ISBN13 9781409498117
  • Publish Date 28 March 2013 (first published 28 July 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • Edition New edition
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 266
  • Language English