This volume argues that a wide range of policies in the
international system today - economic sanctions, military
intervention, and counter terrorism policy - are part of a
'punitive ethos' that has arisen since the end of the Cold War.
While that ethos is linked to the protection of human rights and
the promotion of international liberalism, it violates standards of
justice that it should otherwise be protecting.
The book is premised on the assumption that while punishment in
principle is justifiable, the ways it is being meted out in the
current international order are not just. It draws on cases in
which members of the international system seek to protect human
rights and uphold international law by imposing punishments on
those who violate the shared international norms. But while these
punitive practices are designed to create a just international
order, they tend to be unjust in practice. For Anthony Lang, these
unjust punishments result from conceptual confusions about agency,
responsibility, legitimacy, and authority. He thus identifies a
dilemma in the current international system: attempts to promote
human rights and international law through punishment are creating
an unjust global order.
Punishment, Justice and International Relations will be of much
interest to students of international ethics, security and
international relations in general.
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