1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations

By Birgit Schippers Copyright 2020
    428 Pages
    by Routledge

    428 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.