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Ethical Competence in International Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

Mervyn Frost
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , Summer 2009 , pp. 91 - 100
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2009

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1 It would be a useful exercise to investigate the reasons for this loss of competence, but I do not have the space to do so in this article. A more complete argument for the centrality of ethics to a full understanding of contemporary international relations is set out in my book Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2009).Google Scholar

2 On constitutive theory in general, see Frost, Mervyn, Ethics in International Relations: A Constitutive Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Because what is being described here is a set of relationships internal to a practice, it may seem as if there is an element of circularity here, but this circularity is not different from that found in the following assertion: the fundamental value realized through participation in a democracy can only be had through participating in a democracy.

4 For a list of these, consult Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments (New York: United Nations, 1988).Google Scholar

5 For a defense of this kind of claim being made by states, see Agamben, Giorgio, State of Exception (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).CrossRefGoogle Scholar