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Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?

Collective Moral Agency and International Relations

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Toni Erskine

    1. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

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Part of the book series: Global Issues (GLOISS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Making Sense of ‘Responsibility’ in International Relations — Key Questions and Concepts

    1. Introduction: Making Sense of ‘Responsibility’ in International Relations — Key Questions and Concepts

      • Toni Erskine
      Pages 1-16

  3. Identifying Moral Agents: States, Governments, and ‘International Society’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Assigning Responsibilities to Institutional Moral Agents: The Case of States and ‘Quasi-States’

      • Toni Erskine
      Pages 19-40

    3. Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Representing the State

      • David Runciman
      Pages 41-50

    4. Moral Agency and International Society

      • Chris Brown
      Pages 51-65

  5. Hard Cases: Assigning Duties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. NATO and the Individual Soldier as Moral Agents with Reciprocal Duties: Imbalance in the Kosovo Campaign

      • Paul Cornish, Frances V. Harbour
      Pages 119-137

    3. The Anti-Sweatshop Movement

      • Rebecca DeWinter
      Pages 138-156

  6. Hard Cases: Apportioning Blame

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. The Responsibility of Collective External Bystanders in Cases of Genocide

      • Daniela Kroslak
      Pages 159-182

    3. The United Nations and the Fall of Srebrenica

      • Anthony Lang Jr
      Pages 183-203

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 238-241
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About this book

Can institutions, in the sense of formal organizations, be considered vulnerable to moral burdens? The contributors to this book critically examine the idea of the 'collective' or 'institutional' moral agent in, inter alia , the guise of states, transnational corporations, the UN and international society. The viability of treating these entities as bearers of moral responsibilities is explored in the context of some of the most critical and debated issues and events in international relations, including the genocide in Rwanda, development aid, the Kosovo campaign and global justice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Toni Erskine

About the editor

CHRISTIAN BARRY Director, Program on Justice and the World Economy, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs CHRIS BROWN Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics, UK PAUL CORNISH Director, Centre for Dence Studies, Kings College, University of London, UK REBECCA DEWINTER School of International Service, American University, USA MERVYN FROST Professor of International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK FRANCES V. HARBOUR Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, USA DANIELA KROSLAK University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK ANTHONY F. LANG Jr. Program Officer, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs CORNELIA NAVARI Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK NICHOLAS RENGGER Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, St Andrews University, UK DAVID RUNCIMAN Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Cambridge, UK

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