The Ethics of Peace and War: From State Security to World Community

This book looks at three general theories concerned with the role of ethics in international politics, focusing on the specific problems of war and armed conflict. The author explores the connections between these three theories--cosmopolitanism, reason of state, and just war theory and pacifism--and puts forward the argument for the appropriateness of cosmopolitanism (with its emphasis on the equal worth of all human beings) above the other two.