How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521005205 ISBN 13: 9780521005203

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This volume looks outward to the new century and to the dynamics of this first truly global age. It asks the fundamental question: how might human societies live? The contributors believe that there is nothing more political than ethics. By exploring in the newest context some of the oldest questions about duties and obligations within and beyond humanly constructed boundaries, the essays help us ponder the most profound question in world politics today: who will the twenty-first century be for?

About this title

About the Author:

Ken Booth is E. H. Carr Professor in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He was the first president of the British International Studies Association and is the current editor of International Relations.

Review:

'This is an impressive, comprehensive treatment of what international relations theorists have learned throughout the 'hot peace' decade that followed the cold war. Self-described realists remind us of the importance of remembering Marx, the social scientist, in this era of triumphal capitalism. Putative Marxists restate the relevance of Kant, the historian and ethicist, in a world in which depoliticizing postmodernists question the substance of triumphal liberalism. And scholars across paradigms emphasize the centrality of classical theorizing to the conflict and inequality of the current world.' Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball, Professor of International Relations and Chair, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521005205
• ISBN 13: 9780521005203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Booth Ken, Dunne Tim, Cox Michael