How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New Century

by Edited by Ken Booth , Tim Dunne , Michael Cox

• ISBN13: 9780521005203
• ISBN10: 0521005205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume looks outward to the twenty-first century and to the dynamics of this first truly global age. It asks the fundamental question: how might human societies live? In contrast to the orthodoxies of academic Philosophy and International Relations in much of the twentieth century, which marginalised or rejected the study of ethics, the contributors here believe that there is nothing more political than ethics, and therefore deserving of scholarly analysis. By exploring some of the oldest questions about duties and obligations within and beyond humanly constructed boundaries, the essays help us ponder the most profound question in world politics today: who will the twenty-first century be for?

Table of Contents

Foreword Christopher Hill

Introduction Ken Booth, Tim Dunne and Michael Cox

1. Ethics and the international Onora O'Neill

2. In defence of cultural particularism Terry Nardin

3. Does cosmopolitan thinking have a future? Derek Heater

4. Ethics and environmental politics: the implications of the Gaia hypothesis Mary Midgley

5. Feminism and ethics: gendering justice globally Kimberley Hutchings

6. Is there truth beyond race Kenan Malik

7. Might cosmopolitan democracy deliver the answers? Peter Jones

8. Globalisation from above: actualising the ideal through law Philip Allott

9. Sustainable peace after conflict Michael Doyle

10. Can globalisation be ethical

justice, equality and the Washington consensus Richard Higgott.