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This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politics. These include the morality of state and non-state violence, the obligations of rich to poor in a globalizing world, and the scope and nature of international human rights. The second edition contains expanded coverage of pressing contemporary issues relating to migration, changes in the technologies of war, and the global environment.

Hutchings’s excellent book helps non-specialist students to understand the assumptions underpinning different moral traditions, and enables them to formulate their own views on how to approach moral judgement and prescription - essential in a world which, though it is shared by all, possesses massive cultural differences and inequalities of power.

Global Ethics: An Introduction

• Title page


• Copyright page


• Acknowledgements


• Preface to the Second Edition


• Abbreviations


• 1: What is Global Ethics?


• Introduction


• Defining our terms


• Global


• Ethics


• Ethics/Morality


• Ethics/Politics


• Doing Global Ethics


• Do we already have an answer to the questions posed by Global Ethics?


• Outline of the book


• How to use this book


• References and further reading


• 2: Rationalist Ethical Theories


• Introduction


• Utilitarian ethics


• Contractualist ethics


• Deontological ethics


• Discourse ethics


• Conclusion


• References and further reading


• 3: Alternatives to Ethical Rationalism


• Introduction


• Virtue ethics


• Feminist ethics


• Postmodernist ethics


• Conclusion


• Questions about foundations


• Questions about procedures


• Questions about substance


• References and further reading


• 4: Ethics of International Aid and Development


• Introduction


• Humanitarian aid


• Development aid


• Sustainable development


• Conclusion


• References and further reading


• 5: Global Distributive Justice


• Introduction


• Two faces of justice


• Justice is not two-faced


• Beyond the statist/globalist impasse


• Questioning the global justice debate


• The ethics of migration


• Conclusion


• References and further reading


• 6: Ethics of War


• Introduction


• Just war theory


• Justice ad bellum


• Justice in bello