Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy

Taylor & Francis

Rethinking Ethical Foreign PolicyPitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes\nAuthor(s): David Chandler, Volker Heins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138985353, 978-1138985353\nSynopsis\nThis new volume moves beyond the limits of current debate to show how todays foreign policy is increasingly about values rather than interests and why ethics are now playing a central role.\n\nRather than counterposing interests and ethics, trying to find hidden agendas or emphasizing the double-standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this book brings together leading international theorists, and a variety of stimulating approaches, to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy, and to analyze the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. They deal with the limits of ethical foreign policy both in the light of the internal dynamic of these policies themselves, and with regard to the often unin.