Review: Ethics and International Politics; Ethics in International Relations
| Published date | 01 March 1997 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209705200113 |
| Date | 01 March 1997 |
| Author | Mark Neufeld |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
169
Part
iII
consists
of
three
policy
oriented
chapters
on
human
rights
institutions,
practices,
and
political
commitments.
They are
interesting,
but
the book
should
have
ended
with
a
single,
strong concluding
chap-
ter
that
wove
together
the
various
themes,
hypotheses,
and
theoretical
issues
developed
earlier.
But
this
is
quibble.
Between.
Principle
and
Practice
is
a
major
contribution
to comparative foreign
policy
analysis,
as
well
as
the
challenges
and
opportunities
of
practical
assistance
to
struggling
democracies.
Leslie
A.
Paul/Carleton
University
ETHICS
AND
INTERNATIONAL
POLITICS
Luigi
Bonanate
transJohn
Irving
Columbia:
University
of
Columbia
Press,
1995, xiv, 184pp,
US$
4
9.95
ETHICS
IN
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
A
Constitutive
Theory
Mervyn
Frost
Cambridge:
Cambridge
University
Press,
1996,
x,
25
1pp,
US$
54 .9 5
The
theme
of
'ethics
and
international
politics,'
long
neglected
in
the
discipline,
has
of
late
become
somewhat
of
a
growth
industry.
International
Ethics
is
now
an
official
section
of
the
International
Studies
Association,
and
the
number
of
books
and
articles
oriented
to
the
theme
increases
yearly.
The
two
books
under
review
here
are
good
examples
of
the
state
of
discussion.
As
one
would
expect
of
a
sub-field
still
trying
to
establish
its
legitimacy,
both
books
spend
considerable
time
defending
the
very
possibility
of
an
'international
ethics.'
Specifically,
both
authors
confront
and
refute
a
number
of
traditional
objections
to
international
ethics,
including
the
well-known
Machtpolitik-inspired
view
that
it
is
'might'
and
not
'right' that
determines
outcomes
in
the
anar-
chical
interstate
realm.
Bonanate's
Ethics
and
International
Politics
appeared
first
in Italian
in
1992,
and
stands,
along
with
Klaus-Gerd
Giesen's
L'Ethique
des
relations
internationales
(Brussels:
Bruylant
1992)
as
one
of
the
few
non-English
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