Unsettled Balance: Ethics, Security, and Canada's International Relations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774828668 ISBN 13: 9780774828666

Publisher: UBC Press, 2016

Synopsis

The wars on terror, economic crises, climate change, and humanitarian emergencies have challenged decision makers to institute new measures to maintain security. Foreign policy analysts tend to view these decisions as being divorced from ethics, but is this the case? Unsettled Balance, the first rigorous and sustained analysis of security and ethics in the post-9/11 world, shows that ethical arguments about rights, obligations, norms, and values have played a profound role in Canadian foreign policy and international relations, from debates on the “responsibility to protect” as a practice to the militarization of humanitarian aid. Visit the book’s page at www.ubcpress.ca for supplementary teaching materials and unsettledbalance.wordpress.com for additional resources.

About this title

About the Author

Rosalind Warner is a continuing college professor of political science at Okanagan College. Contributors: Edward Akuffo, David R. Black, Alistair Edgar, Barbara J. Falk, Chris Hendershot, Veronica Kitchen, W. Andy Knight, James Rochlin, Peter Stoett, Rebecca Tiessen, and Sarah Tuckey

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774828668
• ISBN 13: 9780774828666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Warner Rosalind