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Front Cover; International Economics; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. The study of international economics; PART 1: The monetary theory of international trade; Chapter 2. Transferring money between countries; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The nature of an exchange rate; 2.3 The quotation of foreign exchange rates; 2.4 The mechanism of international payments; Chapter 3. Determining foreign exchange rates; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A demand and supply model of the market for foreign exchange; 3.3 Orderly cross rates; 3.4 Forward exchange rates; 3.5 Leads and lags.

This topical and timely book critically explores contemporary liberal international relations theory. In the fifty years since the declaration of human rights, the language of international relations has come to incorporate the language of justice and injustice. The book argues that if justice is to become the governing principle of international politics, then liberals must recognise that their political preferences cannot be the preconditions of global ethics. The hierarchy of international political ethics must be constructed afresh so that the first principles of justice are accessible.

In a critique of international deontology, Hardin discusses the forms that moral reasoning might take—from rationalist actor theory to Kantian proceduralism to ad hoc Kantianism—and the relation of Kant's dictum to the institutional nature of much of international affairs. He then relates this discussion to three quite different general policy issues: nuclear deterrence, intervention, and international redistribution.

Every military expedition by the West now dons the mantle of human rights. What happens to international law when justice is the name of power? Examines the charade of NATO's tribunal in The Hague. Adapted from the source document.