Ethics and international affairs

Examines the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and looks at the ways in which the international community has responded to conflicts. The contributors explore how an understanding of the ethical may be developed from the articulation of dilemmas encountered. This book explores the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and examines the responses of the international community to key challenges of the last ten years. It considers how responsibility is viewed at individual, national and international levels when facing the pressing problems of human rights, humanitarian intervention, environmental issues, considerations of gender, international economic justice, matters of war and peace, and the plight of refugees.