Ethics and world politics /

Ethics and world politics /

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Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:	xxi, 440 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Political ethics. Political ethics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8128442

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Other authors / contributors:	Bell, Duncan, 1976-
ISBN:	9780199548620 (pbk.) 0199548625 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The book opens with a discussion of different methods and approaches employed to study the subject, including analytical political theory, post-structuralism and critical theory. It then surveys some of the most prominent perspectives on global ethics, including cosmopolitanism, communitarianism of various kinds, theories of international society, realism, postcolonialism, feminism, and green political thought. Part III examines a variety of more specific issues, including immigration, democracy, human rights, the just war tradition and its critics, international law, and global poverty and inequality. -- Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Methods and Political Theory
1. Ethics and Analytical Political Theory
2. Ethics and Critical Theory
3. Ethics and Post-Structuralism
4. Ethics and Politics
Part II. General Perspectives
5. Political Realism and the Limits of Ethics
6. The Ethics of International Society
7. Defending Community: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Culture
8. Cosmopolitan Visions
9. Feminism
10. Green Political Theory
11. Postcolonialism
12. Comparative Political Thought
Part III. Themes
13. Human Rights
14. Poverty and Global Distributive Justice
15. International Law
16. The Ethics of War (1): The Just War
17. The Ethics of War (2): Critical Alternatives
18. Humanitarian Intervention
19. Terrorism
20. Immigration, Borders, and Citizenship
21. Democracy and World Politics