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Considerations - Ethical questions as fulcrum of transnational impact
What is the
legacy of the ethics of state sovereignty?
Do transnational
realities create cosmopolitan ethics?
Ethics and
International Politics
Definition: “Judgments about human relations made on
the basis of normative standards.”
- 3 standards:
- 3 standards:
Limits on
behavior
Cognizance
of consequences
Responsibility
for conduct
- Problem of the absence of ethical agreement
F and S:
state ‘realities’ vs. religious ‘aspirations’—deep historical roots
But:
enduring, transcendent & universal principles’ can be seen in many formulations other than religion
For
example: human security and human rights
- Theme throughout chapter: Can ends justify means?
- Full Challenge: reconciliation of should and can (ends and
means), given uncertain outcomes
Problem of
determining ethical action in conditions of uncertainty
- Raison d’etat as an ethics of state responsibility
Prudence as
restraint (vs. ends justify means)
Maybe:
challenge is not state vs. ethics but state based ethics vs. non state based ethics.
*Ends are
results of the means (constructivist)
- Principle of non-agression
- Flip side is inviolability of sovereignty
Ethical
goal of delegitimating
- Concomitant criteria of jus in bello (justice in war)
Protection
of innocents
Proportionality
Basic of
Geneva Protocol, CWC, landmine ban
Presnece of
norm despite absence of enforcement
- Jus in bello in the nuclear age: problems of deterrence
oppositie
of protection of the innocents
absence of
control or proportionality
- Jus ad bellum in a transnational world
anticipatory
self-defense in the age of terrorism
human
rights, humanitarian intervention
distributive
justice and migrations
environmental
issues
- Root of the problem: conflict of ethical foundations
Hoffman:
duties beyond borders, to individuals
National
security vs. human security
State
security vs. cosmopolitan security
*WRT enforcement of ethics—the realists would say that the
strong do what they can on the basis of their might. The strong set the norms.
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