One World: The Ethics of Globalization - Hardcover

Singer, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300096860 ISBN 13: 9780300096866

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The book encompasses four main global issues: climate change, the role of the World Trade Organization, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and foreign aid. Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes international theory and relations today. On climate change, for example, he sees the ethical issue as one that concerns a common global resource - the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb waste gases. How much of this resource should developed notions appropriate, and how much should be left for developing nations? Regarding the WTO, Singer asks whether the organization allows free trade to override all other values, and he assesses the evidence for and against the view that globalization helps the poor. In his consideration of human rights, the author asks to what extent we can develop global laws protecting human rights and what the criteria for intervention should be when these rights are violated. Finally, Singer addresses the obligations of the world's rich nations to assist the poor nations.

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From the Publisher:

Also available by Peter Singer: A Darwinian Left.

From the Back Cover:

"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential." -New Yorker

"Singer has brought to the issue of globalization a lot of insight, powerful analysis and prescription, often cogently expressed and reflective of his erudition, which is clearly both broad and deep." -Strobe Talbott, director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300096860
• ISBN 13: 9780300096866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208