Duties Beyond Borders

Duties Beyond Borders
Duties Beyond Borders  
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Author(s) Stanley Hoffmann
Country United States of America
Language English
Genre(s) international relations, ethics literature
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Publication date June 1981
Media type Print
Pages 252
ISBN 0815601689
OCLC Number 7277768
Preceded by Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War
Followed by Dead Ends: American Foreign Policy in the New Cold War

Duties Beyond Borders (full title: Duties Beyond Borders: On the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics) is a book by Stanley Hoffmann published in 1981 which focuses on the application of ethical principles to international relations. The book won the Le Prix Adolphe Bentinck for 1982 for "the book which most contributes to the unity and cause of peace in Europe". The book is based upon a series of lectures which Hoffmann gave at Syracuse University between February and April 1980. [1]

Contents

Summary

Ethics and International Affairs

The Use of Force

The Promotion of Human Rights

Problems of Distributive Justice

An Ethics of World Order

See also

References

  1. ^ Hoffmann, Stanley (1981) Duties Beyond Borders: On the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics, New York: Syracuse University Press, P. xi

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