Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs: Arguments from the Middle Ground

Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Terrain of the Middle Ground; 2 Are We Linguistically Left-Handed? In Search of Responsible, Ethical Subjects; 3 Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice; 4 Middle-Ground Ethics and Human Rights in International Relations; 5 Theorizing Secession: What Should Be the Relationship between the Ideal and the Empirical?; 6 Global Constitutionalism as a Middle-Ground Ethic; 7 Beyond Order versus Justice: Middle-Ground Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect