The Ethics of Foreign Policy

by MacDonald,David B.

• ISBN13: 9780754643777
• ISBN10: 0754643778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume considers the ethical aspects of foreign policy change through five inter-related dimensions: conceptual, security, economic, normative and diplomatic. The definition of ethics and what an ethical foreign policy should be is highly contested. The editors have included many very different viewpoints to reflect the strong differences 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 which will enable readers to develop 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 make this volume ideally suited to courses on international relations, security studies, ethics and human rights, philosophy, media studies and international law.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the ethical context of foreign policy

Morality and War on Terror

Exceptionalism, the Holocaust, and American foreign policy

The America who would be king: in praise of moral restraint, or concerns of an acolyte of Thomas Hobbes

Ethics and national security in the age of international terrorism

Moral and Global Security

The ethics of the 'new international policing'

Liberal interventionism versus international law: Blair's wars against Kosovo and Iraq

Morality, media and international conflict

Morality, Culture and Economics

How to be good: morality in Japan's and Germany's foreign policy

Interdependence, states and community: ethical concerns and foreign policy in ASEAN

The ethical challenge of trade policy

The ethical challenges of political corruption in a globalized political economy

Morality, Law, and the Practitioners

The ethical challenges of terrorism and rogue regimes

The ethics of foreign policy

International security and the law: is international law still relevant during armed conflict?

Pious hope or realist instrument? Challenges from the pursuit of international criminal justice

Conclusion: Some reflections on ethics and foreign policy

Index

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