Routledge, 2007. 244 p.
Contemporary foreign policy is increasingly perceived to be about values rather than interests as traditionally conceived. Once marginal, ethics are today held to play a central role in foreign policy.
This new book goes beyond current debates which locate the limitations to ethical foreign policy in the strategic and economic interests of nation-states. Rather than counter-posing interests and
ethics, trying to find ‘hidden agendas’, or emphasizing the double standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this text brings together leading inteational theorists in order to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy and to analyse the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. The book comprises three clear sections that explore: theoretical issues, techniques and tactics of ethical intervention, and the geography/space of ethical intervention.
The authors deal with the limits of ‘ethical foreign policy’ both in the light of the inteal dynamic of these policies themselves and with regard to the often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the world.
Presenting a range of theoretical approaches to the study of ethical foreign policy in the US, UK and Europe, this topical book will be of strong interest to students and researchers of Inteational
Relations, Politics, Law and Philosophy.
Ethics and foreign policy: new perspectives on an old problem. David Chandler and Volker Heins.
Geographies of ethical intervention
Neo-Wilsonianism: the limits of American ethical foreign policy. Alex Gourevitch
Crusaders and snobs: moralizing foreign policy in Britain and Germany, 1999–2005. Volker Heins Poor man’s ethics? Peacekeeping and the contradictions of ethical ideology. Philip Cunliffe
Theoretical issues
The ‘West divided’? Bentham and Kant on law and ethics in foreign policy. Peter Niesen.
European Union, normative power and ethical foreign policy. Ian Manners
Moral judgements on inteational interventions: a Bosnian perspective. Isabelle Delpla
Techniques and tactics of ethical intervention
The Other-regarding ethics of the ‘empire in denial’. David Chandler
Agents of truth and justice: truth commissions and the transitional justice epistemic community. Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch
Precision in uncertain times: targeting as a mode of justification for the use of force. Ariel Colonomos
Trusteeship and contemporary inteational society. William Bain
Contemporary foreign policy is increasingly perceived to be about values rather than interests as traditionally conceived. Once marginal, ethics are today held to play a central role in foreign policy.
This new book goes beyond current debates which locate the limitations to ethical foreign policy in the strategic and economic interests of nation-states. Rather than counter-posing interests and
ethics, trying to find ‘hidden agendas’, or emphasizing the double standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this text brings together leading inteational theorists in order to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy and to analyse the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. The book comprises three clear sections that explore: theoretical issues, techniques and tactics of ethical intervention, and the geography/space of ethical intervention.
The authors deal with the limits of ‘ethical foreign policy’ both in the light of the inteal dynamic of these policies themselves and with regard to the often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the world.
Presenting a range of theoretical approaches to the study of ethical foreign policy in the US, UK and Europe, this topical book will be of strong interest to students and researchers of Inteational
Relations, Politics, Law and Philosophy.
Ethics and foreign policy: new perspectives on an old problem. David Chandler and Volker Heins.
Geographies of ethical intervention
Neo-Wilsonianism: the limits of American ethical foreign policy. Alex Gourevitch
Crusaders and snobs: moralizing foreign policy in Britain and Germany, 1999–2005. Volker Heins Poor man’s ethics? Peacekeeping and the contradictions of ethical ideology. Philip Cunliffe
Theoretical issues
The ‘West divided’? Bentham and Kant on law and ethics in foreign policy. Peter Niesen.
European Union, normative power and ethical foreign policy. Ian Manners
Moral judgements on inteational interventions: a Bosnian perspective. Isabelle Delpla
Techniques and tactics of ethical intervention
The Other-regarding ethics of the ‘empire in denial’. David Chandler
Agents of truth and justice: truth commissions and the transitional justice epistemic community. Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch
Precision in uncertain times: targeting as a mode of justification for the use of force. Ariel Colonomos
Trusteeship and contemporary inteational society. William Bain