1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations
Discussing cutting-edge debates in the field of international ethics, this key volume builds on existing work in the normative study of international relations. It responds to a substantial appetite for scholarship that challenges established approaches and examines new perspectives on international ethics, and that appraises the ethical implications of problems occupying students and scholars of international relations in the twenty-first century. The contributions, written by a team of international scholars, provide authoritative surveys and interventions into the field of international ethics. Focusing on new and emerging ethical challenges to international relations, and approaching existing challenges through the lens of new theoretical and methodological frameworks, the book is structured around five themes:
• New directions in international ethics
• Ethical actors and practices in international relations
• The ethics of climate change, globalization, and health
• Technology and ethics in international relations
• The ethics of global security
Interdisciplinary in its scope, this book will be an important resource for scholars and students in the fields of politics and international relations, philosophy, law and sociology, and a useful reference for anyone who wishes to acquire ‘ethical competence’ in the area of international relations.
Introduction
Birgit Schippers
PART I New Directions in International Ethics
1 Complexity Thinking and the Relational Ethics of Global Life
Emilian Kavalski
2 Anarchism and Global Ethics
Alex Prichard
3 The Ethics of Global Encounter
Michael J. Shapiro
4 Time, Decolonial Ethics and Invention
Anna M. Agathangelou
5 Race and Ethics in International Relations
T.D. Harper-Shipman and Lewis R. Gordon
6 Trans* Theorizing for Ethics in International Relations
Laura Sjoberg
7 Emotion and Ethics in International Relations
Andrew A.G. Ross
PART II Ethical Actors and Practices in International Relations
8 The Global Dead and the Ethics of Mourning and Remembrance
Jessica Auchter
9 Celebrities as Ethical Actors: Individuals and Cosmopolitan Obligation
Annika Bergman Rosamond
10 Foreign Policy, Populism and International Ethics
David T. Smith
11 The Ethics of Statelessness
Kelly Staples
12 Cross-Language, Sensitive Research with Refugees
Méabh McAuley
PART III Climate Change, Globalization, and Global Health: Challenges for International Ethics
13 Climate Change and Global Displacement: Towards an Ethical Response
Phillip Cole
14 Climate Change and International Ethics
Alexa Zellentin
15 International Political Economy (IPE): Towards a Contested Ethics of Globalization
Marco Andreu and James Brassett
16 The Ethics of Global Development
Gerard McCann
17 The Ethics of Global Health: Taking Stock of the State-Market-Citizen Nexus in Global Governance for Health
Lauren Paremoer
18 Global Bioethics
Adèle Langlois
PART IV Technology and Ethics in International Relations
19 Border Technologies and Ethics in Security: Presuming Consent, Obscuring Responsibility
Heather L. Johnson
20 The Ethics of Mass Surveillance
John Guelke
21 Drones and the Ethics of War
Thomas Gregory
22 Autonomous Weapons Systems and Ethics in International Relations
Birgit Schippers
23 International Humanitarian and Development Aid and Big Data Governance
Andrej Zwitter
PART V The Ethics of Global Security
24 The Responsibility to Protect and the Ethics of Humanitarianism
Alex J. Bellamy
25 Rethinking the Ethics of Private War
Deane-Peter Baker
26 Posthuman Security
Carolin Kaltofen
27 Nonviolence in International Relations
Iain Atack
Biography
Birgit Schippers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at St Mary’s University College Belfast and a visiting research fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast.
"This timely collection of essays articulates a new generation of fresh, critical and original insights into the most urgent ethical dilemmas and emerging issues rapidly transforming the world. In so doing, this stimulating volume makes a precious contribution to thinking anew about the field of international ethics and the significant problems that humanity now faces." - Patrick Hayden, Editor, Journal of International Political Theory and Professor, University of St Andrews, UK.