Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Possibilities And Paradoxes (routledge Advances In International Relations And Global Politics)
by David Chandler /
2006 / English / PDF
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This new volume moves beyond the limits of current debate to show
how today’s foreign policy is increasingly about values rather
than interests and why ethics are now playing a central role.
This new volume moves beyond the limits of current debate to show
how today’s foreign policy is increasingly about values rather
than interests and why ethics are now playing a central role.
Rather than counterposing interests and ethics, trying to find
‘hidden agendas’ or emphasizing the double-standards at play in
ethical foreign policy, this book brings together leading
international theorists, and a variety of stimulating approaches,
to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical
foreign policy, and to analyze the limits of ethical
policy-making on its own terms. They deal with the limits of
‘ethical foreign policy’ both in the light of the internal
dynamic of these policies themselves, and with regard to the
often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the
world.
Rather than counterposing interests and ethics, trying to find
‘hidden agendas’ or emphasizing the double-standards at play in
ethical foreign policy, this book brings together leading
international theorists, and a variety of stimulating approaches,
to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical
foreign policy, and to analyze the limits of ethical
policy-making on its own terms. They deal with the limits of
‘ethical foreign policy’ both in the light of the internal
dynamic of these policies themselves, and with regard to the
often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the
world.
This book also shows how the transformation of both the domestic
and the international spheres of politics means that ethics has
become a rallying point for non-state actors and experts who
gather around values and norms in order to force institutions to
justify their behavior. This process results from different
structural changes and the transformation of the international
system, the individualization of Western societies and the
growing importance of expertise in the justification of decisions
in risk adverse societies. It leads to a transformation of norms
and to a redefinition of a global ethical framework that needs to
be clarified.
This book also shows how the transformation of both the domestic
and the international spheres of politics means that ethics has
become a rallying point for non-state actors and experts who
gather around values and norms in order to force institutions to
justify their behavior. This process results from different
structural changes and the transformation of the international
system, the individualization of Western societies and the
growing importance of expertise in the justification of decisions
in risk adverse societies. It leads to a transformation of norms
and to a redefinition of a global ethical framework that needs to
be clarified.
This book will be of great interest to all students and
researchers of foreign policy formation, politics and
international relations.
This book will be of great interest to all students and
researchers of foreign policy formation, politics and
international relations.
