Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy - Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes (Hardcover)

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 theorists, and a variety of stimulating approaches, to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy, and to analyze the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. They deal with the limits of 'ethical foreign policy' both in the light of the internal dynamic of these policies themselves, and with regard to the often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the world. This book also shows how the transformation of both the domestic and the international spheres of politics means that ethics has become a rallying point for non-state actors and experts who gather around values and norms in order to force institutions to justify their behavior. This process results from different structural changes and the transformation of the international system, the individualization of Western societies and the growing importance of expertise in the justification of decisions in risk adverse societies. It leads to a transformation of norms and to a redefinition of a global ethical framework that needs to be clarified. This book will be of great interest to all students and researchers of foreign policy formation, politics and international relations.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	2007
Editors:	David Chandler • Volker Heins
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-40019-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-40019-8
Barcode:	9780415400190

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