Ethics, Liberalism and Realism in International Relations Ethics, Liberalism and Realism in International Relations
Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

Ethics, Liberalism and Realism in International Relations

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Publisher Description

This book explores the complex issue of international ethics in the two dominant schools of thought in international relations; Liberalism and Realism.

Both theories suffer from an inability to integrate the ethical and pragmatic dimensions of foreign policy. Liberal policy makers often suffer from moral blindness and a tendency toward coercion in the international arena, whilst realists tend to be epistemic sceptics, incorporating Nietzsche’s thought, directly or indirectly, into their theories. Mark Gismondi seeks to resolve the issues in these two approaches by adopting a covenant based approach, as described by Daniel Elazar’s work on the covenant tradition in politics, to international relations theory.

The covenant approach has three essential principles:

policy makers must have a sense of realism about the existence of evil and its political consequences
power must be shared and limited
liberty requires a basis in shared values.

Ethics, Realism and Liberalism in International Relations will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, philosophy, ethics and international relations.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2007
September 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
1.1
MB

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