Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations 1st edition by Brent Steele,Eric Heinze 9780429761874 0429761872

1 A History of Ethics in International Relations

Introduction

The Canon of Ethics in International Relations

Ethics in the Founding of the Discipline of Ir

Ethics in Ir in the Cold War

Ethics in Ir After the Cold War

Conclusion

Notes

Part I Philosophical Foundations

Philosophical Foundations of International Ethics

Notes

2 Kantian Themes in Ethics and International Relations

Introduction

Kantian Constructivism and International Relations

The Relationship Between Domestic and International Justice

Conclusion

Notes

3 Global Egalitarianism: Cosmopolitanism and Statism

Introduction

What is Global Egalitarianism?

Cosmopolitan Egalitarianism

Arguing for Cosmopolitan Egalitarianism

Statism

Two Statist Arguments

Statism Versus Cosmopolitanism

Conclusion

Notes

4 Collective Responsibility and Joint Criminal Enterprise

Introduction

Collective Responsibility

Collective Liability and Joint Criminal Enterprise

Justifying Joint Criminal Enterprise

Conclusion

Note

Bibliography

5 Constructing Realities in International Politics: Latin American Views on the Construction and Implementation of the International Norm Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

Norms, Ethics, and Constructivism in Ir: Introduction

Norms Construction in an International Historical Context

The Process of Construction of R2P and Its Divergent Views in the Latin American Region

The South American Divergences on the Application of R2P: The Cases of Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador in the Context of the Libyan Conflict

Conclusion

Notes

6 Agency, Explanation and Ethics in International Relations

Introduction

Moral Responsibility

Agency and Explanatory Structure

Agency in Realism and Constructivism

Institutional Agency, Answerability and Moral Responsibility

Notes

Part II International Relations Theory

International Relations Theory: What Place for Ethics?

Introduction

Realism, Ethics, and the ‘science’ of International Relations

Values, Ethics, and Critical Theory

New Paradigms and Emerging Work

Conclusion

Notes

7 Hunting the State of Nature: Race and Ethics in Postcolonial International Relations

Introduction

Postcolonial International Relations and Ethics

Hunting the State of Nature

Different Ontological Starting Points for Ir Theory

Conclusion

Notes

8 Social Constructivism and International Ethics

Introduction: Norms as Social Facts and Norms as Ethical Values

The Exclusion of the Ethical From Early Social Constructivist Research

The Integration of the Ethical and the Empirical in Social Constructivist Norms Research

The Challenges and Opportunities in Fusing Normative and Empirical Research on International Norms

Notes

9 Truth and Power, Uncertainty and Catastrophe: Ethics in International Relations Realism

Introduction

Classical Realism: The Truth of Power and the Problem of Uncertainty

The Power of Truth: Neorealism and the Problem of Nuclear Catastrophe

Uncertain Truths and the Catastrophes of Power: Ethical Reinvigorations of Realism

Conclusion

Notes

10 Ethics and Feminist International Relations Theory

Feminist International Relations Theory

Feminist Relational View of Agency

Feminist Ethics and Ir

Feminists Rethinking Security in Building Peace

Conclusion

Notes

11 Critical International Ethics: Knowing/Acting Differently

Outside International Ethics: Problem-Solving Versus Critical Theory Approaches to Ethics in International Relations

Thinking Ethically: Critical Theoretical Engagements

Conclusion

Notes

Part III International Security and Just War

Security and the Ethics of War

Introduction

Security

War

Conclusion

Notes

12 Morgenthau and the Ethics of Realism

‘A Norm is Not a Wish or an Invitation’

The Ethics of Evil and Moral Courage

The Ethics of Responsibility and the Lesser Evil

The Twilight of International Morality and the Articulation of the Moral Dignity of the National Interest

Conclusion: Realist Ethics Beyond the National Interest?

Notes

13 Ethics and Critical Security Studies

Introduction

The Contours of Critical Security Studies

Conclusion: A Contribution to Normative Political Theory?

Notes

14 Tradition-Based Approaches to the Study of the Ethics of War

Introduction

Western Tradition-Based Ethics of War

Islamic Tradition-Based Ethics of War

Limits of the Tradition-Based Approach

Notes

15 How Should Just War Theory Be Revised? Reductive Versus Relational Individualism

Revisionisms

Preview

A Combat Scenario of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

A Scenario of Interpersonal Killing in Ordinary Life

Three Reductive Claims

Can a Group Be Reduced to Its Individual Members?

Can Moral Rules Governing a Group Be Reduced to Moral Rules Governing Its Members?

Can Moral Rules Governing Combatants Individually Be Reduced to Moral Rules Governing Ordinary Persons Individually?

Reductionism Versus Derivationism

Notes

16 Critical Approaches to the Ethics of War

Critical Theory and Problem-Solving Theory

Critical Approaches

Critical Approaches and the Ethics of War

Conclusion

Notes

Part IV Justice, Rights and Global Governance

Ethics and Institutions

Institutions

Liberalism

Contestation

Notes

17 Historical Context

Introduction

Origins and Early Years

World War Ii and the Early Cold War

The Late Cold War Period and Its Aftermath

Ethics and Ir Today

Notes

18 Justice: Constitution and Critique

Introduction

Constituting Justice

Liberalism, Justice, and International Ethics

Conclusion

Notes

19 The Ethical Terrain of International Human Rights: From Invoking Dignity to Practising Recognition

Introduction

The International Human Rights System

The Moral Architecture of International Human Rights

Struggles for Dignity and the Politics of Rights Recognition

Conclusion

Notes

20 International Law and Ethics

Global Constitutionalism

Cosmopolitanism

Critical Legal Theories

Feminist Approaches to International Law and Ethics

Conclusion

Notes

Part V International Intervention

Ethics and International Intervention

Notes

21 Historical Thinking About Human Protection: Insights From Vattel

The Duty to “Perfect” Strangers

Weighing Duties to Strangers Against Duties to One’s Own Population

No Right to Impose Perfection on Unwilling Others

Intervention Against Tyranny is Permissible

Conclusion

Notes

22 The Global Ethics of Humanitarian Action

Humanitarian Boom

The Emergence of Humanitarian Organizations

The Evolution of Humanitarian Terminology

Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian Principles

Moral Problems in Humanitarian Action

Ethical Limits—Relief and Development?

What Next for Humanitarian Ethics?

Notes

23 The Responsibility to Protect: The Evolution of a Hollow Norm

Introduction

‘Many Grounds for Optimism About the Future of R2P’?

Explaining R2P’s Popularity

Conclusion: ‘It Cannot Fail’

Notes

24 Right Intent in Humanitarian Intervention

Categorization and Justification

Just Cause and Intent

Conclusion

Notes

Part VI Environment, Health and Migration: The Ethics of Vulnerability

The Ethics of Vulnerability in International Relations

Introduction

Constructing Vulnerability, Constructing Ethics

Overview of Theme

Notes

25 Transnational Migration and the Construction of Vulnerability

Introduction: The Vulnerable Child Migrant

Image, Language, Body: The Ethics of Vulnerability and Global Youth

Global Youth

An Extra/Ordinary Ethics

Mobility “Outside Politics”

Vulnerability, Childhood, and the Nation

Presenting and Resisting Vulnerability

Conclusion

Notes

26 At a Crossroads: Health and Vulnerability in the Era of Hiv

Introduction

International Relations and the Politics of Global Health

The Political and Ethical Dimensions of Vulnerability

Hiv and Embodied Vulnerability

‘On the Other Side of the Road, No Arvs’: The Uneven Terrain of Vulnerability

Global Health Gatekeepers and Embodied Vulnerability

Conclusion

Notes

27 Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Vulnerability

Introduction

The Ethics of Vulnerability and Sustainable Development

Vulnerable Populations and Sustainable Development in an Era of Climate Change

Vulnerability and the Pillars of Sustainable Development

Critiques of Vulnerability in Sustainable Development

Looking Toward the Future

Notes

28 Climate Change and Island Populations

Introduction

Small Islands and Climate Governance

Small Islands and ‘Climate Change Migration’

Climate Migration as a Security Threat

Enviroracism

Immobility

Conclusion

Notes

Part VII Ethics and the Global Economy

International Political Economy and the Ethics of a Global Economy

Introduction: The Politics of a Global Economy

Beyond Economics: History, Power, Agency

Two Ontologies of Ipe

The Ethics of the Global (Political) Economy

Notes

29 The Ethics of Alternative Finance: Governing, Resisting, and Rethinking the Limits of Finance

Perspectives on ‘Post-Crisis’ Finance

Emerging Alternative Financial Practices

P2P Lending and the Ethics of the Alternative

Conclusion

Notes

30 Decolonial Global Justice: A Critique of the Ethics of the Global Economy

Introduction: The Coloniality of Global Justice Theory

Informal Imperialism and Global Injustice

The Imperial Horizons of Global Justice Theory

Global Justice Theory and Decoloniality

Notes

31 Gender, Nature, and the Ethics of Finance in a Racialised Global (Political) Economy

Introduction

The Ethics of Finance

Ethics, Gender, and Finance

‘Natural’ Actors in Finance

Contesting Western Rationality? the ‘Natural’ Actor in Islamic Finance

Conclusions: Everyday Finance, Gender, and Ethics

Notes

32 Biofuels and the Ethics of Global Governance: Experimentalism, Disagreement, Politics

Introduction: The Everyday Ethics of Global Governance

Experimentalist Governance

Transnational Eu Biofuels Regulation

The Everyday Politics of Environmental Ethics

Conclusion

Notes

Part VIII Religion and International Ethics

The Significance of Religious Ethics in International Politics

Notes

33 Adam Smith’s Ambiguous Theodicy and the Ethics of International Political Economy

The Symbolic Structure of Theodicy

Adam Smith’s Complicated and Incomplete Theodicy

Notes

Bibliography

34 Religion, Emotions and Conflict Escalation

Introduction

The X-Factor of Religion

Collective Emotions and Conflict

Connecting Emotions to Securitization

Concluding Remarks: The Study of Ethics is Also a Study of Emotions

Notes

35 Solidarity Beyond Religious and Secular: Multiple Ontologies as an Ethical Framework in the Politics of Forced Displacement

Introduction

The ‘Refugee Crisis’ and Secular Assumptions

Conceptualizing Ontological Injustice

Multiple Ontologies as an Ethical Framework

Notes

36 Ethics From the Underside

Towards an Ethics of Deeds

Towards an Ethics of Elevation of African Descendants and Other Marginalized Communities

Towards an Ethics of Repair

Conclusion

Notes

37 Ibn Khaldun and the Wealth of Civilizations

Introduction

Cosmology

Philosophy of History

Political Economy

Conclusion

Notes

38 The Futures of Ethics and International Relations

Environment, Climate Change and the Non-Human

The Decolonial and Postcolonial Challenge

The Unexceptionality of Complex Violence