Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. The Terrain of the Middle Ground

   • Cornelia Navari

   Pages 1-19

3. Are We Linguistically Left-Handed? In Search of Responsible, Ethical Subjects

   • Daniel Warner

   Pages 21-42

4. Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice

   • Terry Nardin

   Pages 43-63

5. Middle-Ground Ethics and Human Rights in International Relations

   • Mervyn Frost

   Pages 64-79

6. Theorizing Secession: What Should Be the Relationship between the Ideal and the Empirical?

   • Mikulas Fabry

   Pages 81-105

7. Global Constitutionalism as a Middle-Ground Ethic

   • Anthony Lang Jr.

   Pages 106-126

8. Beyond Order versus Justice: Middle-Ground Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect

   • Mikael Baaz

   Pages 127-157

9. Hedley Bull and John Dewey: Two Middle Grounders and a Pragmatic Approach to the Nuclear Dilemma

   • Molly Cochran

   Pages 158-181

10. The Ethics of War, Innocence, and Hard Cases: A Call for the Middle Ground

    • Milla Emilia Vaha

    Pages 182-202

11. Authoritarianism, Anti-imperialism, and Intervention: The Precariousness of the Middle Ground

    • Chris Brown

    Pages 203-221

12. Power Transitions, Emerging Powers, and the Shifting Terrain of the Middle Ground

    • Andrew Hurrell

    Pages 222-245

13. Back Matter

    Pages 246-251

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Arguing for a middle ground between idealism and realism, this book considers the most pressing ethical and moral issues in contemporary international politics, including intervention, human rights and aid, and sets about reasoning how to resolve them in politically realistic ways.

• Intervention
• global justice
• human rights
• international ethics
• constitution
• ethics
• intervention
• John Dewey
• morality
• politics
• realism

"This is a varied set of essays, not in quality, which is consistently high, but in the divergent perspectives it presents." - International Affairs

"This volume clarifies and develops the potential of middle ground ethics as an approach to normative problem-solving in world politics that is methodologically distinct from both ideal and non-ideal approaches. Mainly located within the English School, these essays offer novel, critical and constructive contributions to reflecting on and resolving international and global problems of the 21st century." - Catherine Lu, McGill University, Canada

"This is a superb collection. Bringing together leading figures in international political theory and distinctive emerging thinkers, it highlights the potential of 'middle ground' ethics, seeking insight into complexity through enquiry in the interstices between ostensibly irreconcilable ethical traditions. The merits of this approach are richly demonstrated across issues from war

to global order, emerging powers to international law." - John Williams, Durham University, UK

"Ethical reasoning is again an important feature of international relations. This book identifies a 'middle ground' with respect to ethical reasoning in international affairs. It builds on the value pluralism of Isaiah Berlin and Hedley Bull: there are conflicts between values and the achievement of the one is often at the expense of the other. How far can 'middle ground'

reasoning take us in today's world of changing power relations and harder times for global liberalism? A prominent list of contributors convincingly demonstrate why this is an extremely clarifying approach. The book will be an indispensable tool for all students of ethics in an international context." - Georg Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

"This fine collection of essays is essential reading on how the tensions between national interests and cosmopolitan ideals - and between clashing valu

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ms - are played out in the international society of states." - Andrew Linklater, Aberystwyth University, UK

• University of Buckingham, UK

  Cornelia Navari

Mikael Baaz is Senior Lecturer of International Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden Chris Brown is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK Molly Cochran is Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University, UK Mikulas Fabry is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Mervyn Frost is Professor and Head of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, UK Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, UK Anthony F Lang Jr. is a Reader in the School of International Relations at St. Andrews University, UK Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore Milla Vaha is a Research Student at the European University Institute, Italy Daniel Warner is Founder and former Executive Director of the Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Austria

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