Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of the Warlord States - Rilegato

Jones, Dorothy V.

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ISBN 10: 0226406466 ISBN 13: 9780226406466

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1991

Riassunto

Is it possible, in our world of differing beliefs and diverse cultures, to find an ethical framework that can guide actual international relations? InCode of Peace, Dorothy V. Jones sets forth her surprising answer to this perplexing question: Not only is a consensus on ethical principles possible, but it has already been achieved.

Jones focuses on the progressive development of international law to disclose an underlying code of ethics that enjoys broad support in the world community. Unlike studies that concentrate on what others think that states ought to do,Code of Peace analyzes what states themselves consider proper behavior. Using history as both narrative and argument, Jones shows how the existing ethical code has evolved cumulatively since World War I from a complex interplay between theory and practice. More than an abstract treatise or a merely technical analysis, Jones's study is grounded in the circumstances of war and peace in this century. Treaties and agreements, she argues, are forging a consensus on such principles as human rights, self-determination, and cooperation between states. Jones shows how leaders and representatives of nations, drawing on a rich heritage of philosophical thoughts as well as on their own experiences in a violent world of self-interested conflict, have shaped their thought to the taming of that world in the cause of peace. That is the striking thing about this code: states whose relations are marked by so frequent a recourse to war that they can fairly be called "warlords" have created and pledged themselves to a code of peace.

The implications of Code of Peace for establishing a normative foundation for peace are profound. Historically sound and timely, impeccably researched and elegantly written, the book will be of immediate and lasting value to anyone concerned with the stability of the modern world.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dorothy V. Jones researched this project as an SSRC/MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Peace and Security. She has been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at the University of Chicago and is a research associate at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226406466
• ISBN 13: 9780226406466
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 226
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile