The Ethics of Peace and War

by Iain Atack

The ethics of peace and war is one of the central ethical issues in International Relations today.This book looks at three key theories which have implications for the role of ethics in war and armed conflict: cosmopolitanism; internationalism; and political realism. It argues for the appropriateness of cosmopolitanism above the other two general theories, with its emphasis on the equal worth of all human beings as the basis for a global moral community...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748622454
• ISBN13: 9780748622450
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 184 Pages