Ethics in International Relations: A Constitutive Theory

by Mervyn Frost

Most questions commonly asked about international politics are ethical ones. Should the international community intervene in Bosnia? What do we owe the starving in Somalia? What should be done about the genocide in Rwanda? Yet, Mervyn Frost argues, ethics is accorded a marginal position within the academic study of international relations. In this book he examines the reasons given for this, and evaluates those ethical theories that do exist within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521555302
• ISBN13: 9780521555302
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"