Ethics in International Relations

Books  /  Reports, Essays, and Papers  /  World Hunger  /  Philosophical Resources  / 
War, Peace, Terrorism, and Military Ethics  /  Classic Texts  /  Anthologies and Texts  /  Books and Articles

• Beitz, Charles, Politcal Theory of International Relations
• Brown, Chris, International Relations Theory
• Cochran, Molly, Normative Theory in International Relations
• Frost, Mervyn, Ethics in International Relations
• Johnson, James Turner, Morality in Contemporary Warfare
• Luigi Bonante, Ethics and International Politics
• Mapel, David and Terry Nardin, eds., International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives
• Pogge, Thomas, Realizing Rawls
• Sen, Martya, Development as Freedom
• Vincent, R.J., Human Rights and International Relations
• Gordon Graham, Ethics and International Relations
• Havel, Vaclav, The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice
• Jackson, Robert, The Global Covenant
• John Paul II, Centesimus Annus (On the Hundredth Aniversary)
• _________, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern)
• Jones, Dorothy, Code of Peace
• Nardin Terry and David Mapel, eds., Traditions of International Ethics
• _________, ed., The Ethics of War and Peace
• Rohde, David, Endgame
• Shue, Henry, Basic Rights
• Walzer Michael, Thick and Thin
• ____________, Just and Unjust War

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 Reports, Essays, and Papers

• UNDP, “The Human Development Report 2000”
• UNHCR, “The State of the World’s Refugees 2000: 50 Yrs of Humanitarian Action”
• UNICEF, “The State of the World’s Children 2000”
• World Bank, “World Development Report 2000 / 2001: Attacking Poverty”
• World Watch Institute, “The State of the World 2000
• “International and Global Scepticism” [from Nigel Dower, World Ethics: The New Agenda, Edinburgh University Press, 1998]
• “A Closer Look at Realism in the Twentieth Century”[from Frances V. Harbour, Thinking about International Ethics, Westview Press, 1999]
• “Cosmopolitan Theories” [from Nigel Dower, World Ethics: The New Agenda, Edinburgh University Press,1998]
• “Moral Cosmopolitanism & Moral Communitarianism” [from Kimberly Hutchings, International Political Theory, Sage, 1999]
• “Internationalism and Communitarianism” [from Nigel Dower, World Ethics: The New Agenda, Edinburgh University Press, 1998]
• “Postmodernism, Ethics and International Political Theory [by Molly Cochran, in Review of International Studies, vol. 21, 1995]
• “Critical and Postmodern International Relations Theory” [from Chris Brown, International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches, Harvester, 1992]
• “The War and Peace Debate & Principles of Classification” [from Martin Ceadel, Thinking About Peace and War, Oxford University Press, 1987]
• “Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention,” [by Michael Pugh, in Brain White, Richard Little & Michael Smith (eds.) Issues in World Politics, Palgrave, 2001]
•  “The Social Construction of International Human rights’ [by Jack Donnelly, in Tim Dunne & Nicholas J. Wheeler (eds.) Human Rights in Global  Politics, Cambridge, 1999]
•  “Universal Human Rights: A Critique,” [by Chris Browne, in Tim Dunne & Nicholas Wheeler (eds.) Human Rights in Global Politics, Cambridge, 1999]
•  “Membership” [from Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality, Martin Robertson, 1983]
•  “Migration and Refugees” [by Sita Bali, in Brain White, Richard Little & Michael Smith (eds.) Issues in World Politics, Palgrave, 2001]
•  “Aid, Trade and Development” [from Nigel Dower, World Ethics: The New Agenda, Edinburgh University Press, 1998]
•  “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” [by Peter Singer, in Andrew Linklater (ed.) International Relations, Routledge, 2000]
•  “World Poverty” [by Nigel Dower, in Peter Singer (ed.) A Companion to Ethics, Blackwell, 1993]
•  “The Environment” [from Nigel Dower, World Ethics: The New Agenda, Edinburgh University Press, 1998]
•  “Environmental Ethics” [by Robert Elliot, in Peter Singer (ed.) A Companion  to Ethics, Blackwell, 1993]
•  “Environment” [by John Vogler, in Brain White, Richard Little & Michael Smith (eds.) Issues in World Politics, Palgrave, 2001]

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 World Hunger

• United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN). Latest 1998 information on population trends.
• HungerWeb. Alan Shawn Feinstein Hunger Program at Brown University.
• Virtual Library on International Development. Excellent guide to on-line resources in international development, esp. Africa.
• WorldWatch Information on Lester Brown's Worldwatch Institute and State of the World Report.
• ReliefNet. ReliefNet was one of the first sites on the web to focus on relief and development issues with an emphasis on fundraising and public education.
• Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen's Hunger and Public Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Peter Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty," New York Times, September 5, 1999.
• "Different Roads to Development: Why it's better to be poor in some countries than in others", The Economist, August 19, 1995.
•  William Shawcross, "A Hero of Our Time," The New York Review of Books, November 30, 1995.
• World Neighbors describes itself as a non-profit organization to eliminate hunger disease and poverty in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Contains information on their organization, sustainability, Global Environmental Problems, Maps, actual 3rd World talks, publications, partnerships.
• Zero Population Growth. Zero Population Growth, Inc. (ZPG) is a national non-profit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance of people, resources, and the environment.
• OneWorld Online describes itself as "a worldwide conversation on sustainable human development."
• Towards a Children's Agenda: New Challenges for Social Development. Provided by Save the Children.
• The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.
• The Cairo Conference Home Page. Maintained by linkages.
• Programme of Action of the United Nations International Conference on Population & Development.

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 Philosophical Resources

• Hugh LaFollette and Larry May, "Suffer the Little Children," World Hunger and Morality, ed. William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette (Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1996).
• Bill McKibben, "Reaching the Limit," New York Review of Books, May 29, 1997.
• Reviews of How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen and The Carrying Capacity Briefing Book by the Carrying Capacity Network.

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