Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader - Softcover

"An eclectic collection...it will be useful to entry-level courses in international relations...Readers will come away with a sense of the liveliness of the ethical debates that are taking place in the discipline." -- Millenium: Journal of International Studies "An excellent and very useful collection." -- Ethics

This collection of some of the best contemporary scholarship in "Ethics and International Affairs" explores the connection between moral traditions and decision making during and after the Cold War. Each author relates the timeless insights of philosophy and our collective historical experience to the hard choices of our own age. Building on the pioneering work of earlier writers in the 1970s and 1980s, this book offers organizing principles for the study of the field. This second edition has been expanded from seventeen to twenty-two essays, of which eleven are new. It includes new chapters on the following topics: Asian values and human rights; moral judgment and cold war history; humanitarian intervention and the politics of rescue; the psychology of genocide; truth, reconciliation, and conflict resolution; and, international business ethics and corporate responsibility. New contributors include Amartya Sen, John Lewis Gaddis, and Thomas Donaldson. This volume should be of special interest to those working and teaching in international relations, diplomatic history, foreign policy, applied ethics, and related fields. This title is published with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.