The wars on terror, economic crises, climate change, and humanitarian emergencies have challenged decision makers to institute new measures to maintain security. Foreign policy analysts tend to view these decisions as being divorced from ethics, but is this the case? Unsettled Balance, the first rigorous and sustained analysis of security and ethics in the post-9/11 world, shows that ethical arguments about rights, obligations, norms, and values have played a profound role in Canadian foreign policy and international relations, from debates on the "responsibility to protect" as a practice to the militarization of humanitarian aid. Visit the book's page at www.ubcpress.ca for supplementary teaching materials and unsettledbalance.wordpress.com for additional resources.

The wars on terror, economic crises, climate change, and humanitarian emergencies have challenged decision makers to institute new measures to maintain security. Foreign policy analysts tend to view these decisions as being divorced from ethics, but is this the case? Unsettled Balance, the first rigorous and sustained analysis of security and ethics in the post-9/11 world, shows that ethical arguments about rights, obligations, norms, and values have played a profound role in Canadian foreign policy and international relations, from debates on the “responsibility to protect” as a practice to the militarization of humanitarian aid. Visit the book’s page at www.ubcpress.ca for supplementary teaching materials and unsettledbalance.wordpress.com for additional resources.

This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative,informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facingCanadians, linking abstract analytical and philosophical questions tothe critical and challenging questions of decision-making practice inCanadian foreign policy. Contributors deal with both the abstractnotions of value, culture, norms, and ethics, and the concretequestions of policy, law, and enforcement. They assess the challengesand the opportunities presented by new concepts, such as humansecurity, mutual vulnerability, soft power, and niche diplomacy, forforeign policy decision making.