globalization international responsibility multilateralism

books:

Ethics in Action
Daniel A. (EDT)/ Coicaud, Jean-Marc (EDT) Bell

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2006

L'introuvable democratie autoritaire: Les dictatures du cone sud, Uruguay, Chili, Argentine (1973-1982) ...
Jean-Marc Coicaud

L'Harmattan, 1996

Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

Cambridge University Press, 2006

This book is the product of a multiyear dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) sponsored by the United Nations University, Tokyo, and the City University of Hong Kong. It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively ...

Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits

United Nations University Press, 2001

Ethics and International Affairs explores the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and examines the ways in which the international community has responded to some of the most crucial challenges of the last ten years. At the center of the book is a discussion of how responsibility is viewed at individual, national, and international levels when facing the pressing problems of human rights, humanitarian intervention, ...

Beyond the National Interest: The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of U.S. Primacy
Jean-Marc Coicaud

United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007

Whatever happened to multilateral peacekeeping? This is the central question Jean-Marc Coicaud explores in this penetrating scholarly examination of the period of "robust" UN-mandated peacekeeping missions in humanitarian crises. The most notable peace operations during this period were undertaken by the three leading NATO powers - the United States foremost among them - in the immediate post Cold War era. Yet, as Coicaud explains, the ...

Globalization of Human Rights

United Nations University Press, 2003

This work focuses on the imperatives of justice at the national, regional, and international levels through an analysis of civil, political, economic, and social rights. There are two reasons for this type of analysis. First, any search for justice is based upon identifying values that are so critical to individual well-being and the character of being human that they become institutionalized as rights. Rights then become the basis upon which ...

Dividends of peace: the economics of peacekeeping. (Economic and Social Implications).(Statistical Data ...
Harriet Hentges, Jean-Marc Coicaud

Columbia University School of International Public Affairs, 2002

This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 6010 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details ...

Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order

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Charles A. Kupchan, Emanuel Adler, ...

United Nations University Press, 2001

Toward a theory of peaceful power transition
This book has basically to do with answering two critical questions."Can the impending transition to multipolarity be managed peacefully?" If yes, "under what conditions and through what causal mechanisms can power transitions occur peacefully?" (P.2) The book offers three factors that make peaceful power transition possible. First, benignity or benign images that current hegemon and rising power ...

Legitimacy and Politics: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility
Jean-Marc Coicaud

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Instances of corruption, extremism, and public distrust have increasingly raised the question of political legitimacy in recent years. The author examines the issue by looking at the conditions necessary for a "rule of law" to exist. He argues that in a democracy the greater the powers given to a political leader, the greater that leader's responsibilities toward society. In order to enjoy legitimacy therefore, our rulers must assume these ...

National Interest and International Solidarity: Particular and Universal Ethics in International Life

United Nations University Press, 2007

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