USAHEC: Ethics: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Why Ethics Matter in International Affairs

The Elliott School's Dean Reuben Brigety and Professors Janne Nolan and Christopher Kojm discuss ethics, leadership, and practice in international relations with Joel Rosenthal, president of Carnegie Council. Published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs on May 30, 2018.

Global Ethics Forum: The Pros, Cons, and Ethical Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence

From driverless cars to lethal autonomous weapons, artificial intelligence will soon confront societies with new and complex ethical challenges, says Yale's Wendell Wallach. What's more, by 2034, 47 percent of U.S. jobs, 69 percent of Chinese jobs, and 75 percent of Indian jobs could all be done by machines. How should societies cope and what role should global governance play? Published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs on December 2, 2016.

Thought Leaders Forum: How Do You Define Global Ethics?

Thought Leaders Jonathan Haidt, Rachel Kleinfeld, Iam Bremmer, Carne Ross, Andrew Nathan, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michael Walzer, Gillian Tett, and Brent Scowcroft describe their visions of a global ethic. Published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs on February 11, 2014.

Open Source Articles Online

"Beyond the Vigilant State: Globalisation and Intelligence"
Aldrich, Richard J.
Review of International Studies 35, no. 4 (October 2009): 889-902.
"Ethical Codes and Cultural Context: Ensuring Legal Ethics in the Global Law Firm"
Etherington, Laurence and Robert Lee
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 14, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 95-118.
"Ethical Competence in International Relations"
Frost, Mervyn
Ethics & International Affairs 23 no. 2 (Summer 2009): 91-102.
"Justice, Community, and Dialogue in International Relations"
Shapcott, Richard
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
"The Impact of Globalization on Ethical Leadership: A Critical Explanation from Tawhidic Paradigm"
Nabi, Ashiqun and Suhaimi M. Sarif
World Review of Business Research 5, no. 3 (September 2015): 160-170.
"Human Security Benchmarks: Governing Human Wellbeing at a Distance"
Homolar, Alexandra
Review of International Studies 41, no. 4 (November 2015): 843–863.
"Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics"
Price, Richard
International Organization 62, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 191-220.
"Organizational Ethics, Individual Ethics, and Ethical Intentions in International Decision-Making"
B. Elango, Karen Paul, Sumit K. Kundu, and Shishir K. Paudel
Journal of Business Ethics 97, no. 4 (December 2010): 543-561.
"Social Responsibility in a Troubled World"
Anderson, Verl, Ken Kalala Ndalamba, and Cam Caldwell
International Journal of Public Leadership 13, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 98-115.
"The Strange Death of Liberal International Theory"
Reus-Smit, Christian
European Journal of International Law 12, no. 3 (2001): 573-593.
" ‘What’s love got to do with it?’ Ethics, emotions, and encounter in International Relations."
Pin-Fat, Véronique.
Review of International Studies 45, no. 2 (2019): 181-200.

Other Resources

Caregie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
The Mission of Carnegie Council is to enlarge the audience for the simple but powerful message that ethics matter, regardless of place, origin, or belief.

Website includes notices of upcoming events, a library of transcripts, audios, and videos of past events, resources for educators and students, and other resources for the study of ethical decision making in international affairs.

Print Books

China 2020: How Western Business Can and Should Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade by Michael A. Santoro
Call Number: Root HF1604 .S26 2009
Publication Date: 2009-05-20
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009)
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Anthony Appiah
Call Number: Root BJ1031 .A66 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
(New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2006)
Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations by Daniel A. Bell (Editor); Jean-Marc Coicaud (Editor)
Call Number: Root JZ4850 .E73 2007
Publication Date: 2006-10-16
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
The Ethics of Preventive War by Deen K. Chatterjee (Editor)
Call Number: Root JZ6369 .E842 2013
Publication Date: 2013-04-04
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions by Richard Sorabji; David Rodin
Call Number: Root B105 .W3 E73 2006
Publication Date: 2006-02-28
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006)
The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty by Daniel R. Brunstetter (Editor); Jean-Vincent Holeindre (Editor)
Call Number: Root U22 .E854 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-10
(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018)
The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility by Owen Flanagan
Call Number: Root BJ45 .F529 2017
Publication Date: 2016-10-24
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations by Mervyn Frost
Call Number: Root JZ1306 .F76 2009
Publication Date: 2008-11-20
(London, UK: Routledge, 2008)
Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Call Number: Root HF1418.5 .S752 2018
Publication Date: 2017-11-28
(New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017)
Honor in Foreign Policy: A History and Discussion by Michael Donelan
Call Number: Root JZ1306 .D55 2007
Publication Date: 2007-07-24
(New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillian, 2007)
Just War and the Ethics of Espionage by Darrell Cole
Call Number: Root JF1525.I6 C65 2015
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
(London, UK: Routledge, 2014)
Military Ethics: International Perspectives by Jeff Stouffer and Stefan Seiler (Editors)
Call Number: Root U22 .M54 2010
Publication Date: 2010
(Kingston, Ontario: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2010)
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations by Christian Reus-Smit (Editor); Duncan Snidal (Editor)
Call Number: Root JZ1242 .O94 2010
Publication Date: 2010-08-13
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010)
The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-First Century by Charles Reed (Editor); David Ryall (Editor); Richard Dannatt (Foreword by)
Call Number: Root U22 .P63 2007
Publication Date: 2007-02-15
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Realpolitik: A History by John Bew
Call Number: Ridgway JZ1307 .B48 2016
Publication Date: 2015-12-01
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics by John J. Mearsheimer
Call Number: Root JZ1306 .M43 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-07
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011)