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1st Edition

Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes

Edited By David Chandler, Volker Heins Copyright 2007

256 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

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This new volume moves beyond the limits of current debate to show how today’s foreign policy is increasingly about values rather than interests and why ethics are now playing a central role. Rather than counterposing interests and ethics, trying to find ‘hidden agendas’ or emphasizing the double-standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this book brings together leading international... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Ethics and foreign policy: new perspectives on an old problem

Volker Heins and David Chandler

Part 1: Geographies of ethical intervention

2 Neo-Wilsonianism: the limits of American ethical foreign policy

Alex Gourevitch

3 Crusaders and snobs: moralizing foreign policy in Britain and Germany, 1999-2005

Volker Heins

4 Poor man’s ethics? Peacekeeping and the contradictions of ethical ideology

Philip Cunliffe

Part 2: Theoretical issues

5 The ‘West divided’? Bentham and Kant on law and ethics in foreign policy

Peter Niesen

6 European Union, normative power and ethical foreign policy

Ian Manners

7 Moral judgments on international interventions: a Bosnian perspective

Isabelle Delpla

Part 3: Techniques and tactics of ethical intervention

8 The Other-regarding ethics of the ‘empire in denial’

David Chandler

9 Agents of truth and justice: truth commissions and the transitional justice epistemic community

Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch

10 Precision in uncertain times: targeting as a mode of justification of the use of force

Ariel Colonomos

11 Trusteeship and contemporary international society

William Bain

Editor(s)

Biography

David Chandler, Volker Heins

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