Books by "David P. Forsythe"
3 books found
This ground-breaking volume considers the ethical aspects of foreign policy change through five interrelated dimensions: conceptual, security, economic, normative and diplomatic. Defining ethics and what an ethical foreign policy should be is highly contested. The book includes many very different viewpoints to reflect the strong divergence of opinion on such issues as humanitarian intervention, free trade, the doctrine of preemption, political corruption and human rights. The thematic approach provides this volume with a clear organizational structure, giving readers a balanced overview of a number of important conceptual and practical issues central to the ethical analysis of states' conduct and foreign policy making. An impressive group of international scholars and practitioners, including a New Zealand Foreign Minister, a US National Security Advisor, and an ICJ Justice, makes this volume ideally suited to courses on international relations, security studies, ethics and human rights, philosophy, media studies and international law.
It's a reality that the world is divided. An important thing we need to do is to influence people from a position of HATE to a position of ACCEPTANCE. Is this realistic when many have unanswered questions and a strong disapproval of people's movement and displacement? Unaware of the motive people cross borders from the first displacement across nation states, to the first aliens acts in many countries followed by subsequent immigration acts and legislations to restrain human movement, prevailing social cohesion. Unaware of the root causes of displacement, this provokes behaviours leading people to focus on human differences, portraying migrants not only as a threat to society but also how troublesome they are. As a society, gaining knowledge is a step closer to ACCEPTANCE fostering cohesion. With the lack of cohesion, we give room to discrimination and racism. Racism, a result of historical power dynamics and colonialism, has snuck its sinister way across the whole history of the human race. The transatlantic slave trade, the European empire and the colonial expansion all played a role into deepening racial stereotypes in communities around the world. Even though those events in question occurred a while back, their representation is still being endured nowadays. It is without a doubt that the legacy of colonialism has left its stain all over the world, from the caste system in India to the persistent persecution experienced by Indigenous groups in Australia and Canada. Why Do People Flee addresses the lack of awareness. This book helps eradicate divisions based on people's wrong perceptions and therefore contributes to solving the world's problems emphasising on human's behaviour towards one's movements. The author's lived experiences can aid in validating the idea that humans are traditionalist by nature, protective of their values, norms and attached to their cultures. They are capable of discriminating against anyone who looks different or anyone who is perceived as a threat to their norms, their interests and being. To oppose and reject what is often perceived as aliens or invaders they might even go further by committing the worst discriminatory and racist acts to show their disdain for other people whom they know nothing about and whom they believe to be invaders and opportunists. Yet the root causes based on our world history remain unknown. This book speaks of history, narrates world's realities that have impacted and driven our perceptions of the world we live in.
International Law and International Relations
by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Hélène Lambert
2012 · Cambridge University Press
In this fully updated and revised edition, the authors explore the evolution, nature and function of international law in world politics and situate international law in its historical and political context. They propose three interdisciplinary 'lenses' (realist, liberal and constructivist) through which to view the role of international law in world politics and suggest that the concept of an international society provides the overall context within which international legal developments occur. These theoretical perspectives offer different ways of looking at international law in terms of what it is, how it works and how it changes. Topics covered include the use of force, international crimes, human rights, international trade and the environment. The new edition also contains more material on non-western perspectives, international institutions and non-state actors and a new bibliography. Each chapter features discussion questions and guides to further reading.