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Terrorism, Human Rights, and the Case for World Government (Hardcover)
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Terrorism, Human Rights, and the Case for World Government (Hardcover)
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One of the nation's leading military ethicists, Louis P. Pojman
argues that globalism and cosmopolitanism motivate the need for
greater international cooperation based on enforceable
international law. The best way to realize the promises of
globalism and cogent moral arguments for cosmopolitanism, Pojman
contends, is through the establishment of a World Government. In
very readable prose, Pojman begins with a description of the
growing menace of non-state terrorism on people everywhere, and
distinguishes 'old-style' from 'new-style' terrorism. In Chapter 2,
he examines the virtues and vices of nationalism, comparing them to
the promises and problems of cosmopolitanism. Pojman ultimately
argues that enforceable international law which will promote peace
and curtail terrorism requires that we endorse a form of 'soft
nationalism.' This form of nationalism is ultimately compatible
with a limited, republican form of world government. Chapter 3
addresses universal human rights, arguing against the notion that
they are an ethnocentric product of Western culture, and providing
an overall justification of human rights as correlative to moral
duties. Pojman concludes on a hopeful note, characterizing his
proposal for a World Government as an effective counter-measure,
albeit ambitious and controversial, to terrorism and its causes.
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