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List of contents
Part I: Introduction; 1. The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics Antje Vetterlein and Hannes Hansen-Magnusson; Part II: Security; 2. Twisting Sovereignty: Security and Human Rights in the 'Invention' and Promotion of the Responsibility to Protect Benjamin de Carvalho; 3. Negotiating Responsibility in Conventional Weapons Disarmament Adam Bower; 4. 'Coalitions of the Willing' and the Shared Responsibility to Protect Toni Erskine; Part III: Environment; 5. Global Environmental Responsibility in International Society Robert Falkner; 6. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Justice: Broadening the Notion of Responsibility in International Law Virginie Barral; 7. Responsibility and Climate Change: Reframing Norms, Practices, and Community Helga Haflidadottir and Anthony F Lang, Jr.; Part IV: Business; 8. The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility as a Global Norm Informing the Practices of Economic Actors Hevina S. Dashwood; 9. An Expanding Conception of Social Responsibility? Of Global Norms and Changing Corporate Perceptions Kelly Kollmann and Alvise Favotto; 10. Can Corporations be Held 'Responsible'? Grahame F. Thompson; Part V: Conclusion; 11. Responsibility and Virtue Ethics: How to Tackle Ethical Dilemmas in World Politics? Hannes Hansen-Magnusson and Antje Vetterlein; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Antje Vetterlein is Professor of Global Governance at Münster University and co-editor of Owning Development: Creating Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank (Cambridge, 2010).Hannes Hansen-Magnusson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University. He was awarded an Early Career Fellowship by the British International Studies Association to conduct research on diplomacy in the Arctic Council.
Summary
The concept of responsibility has emerged as central to the study of international politics. This book explores responsibility as a cross-cutting theme spanning across three governance sectors: the environment, business, and security. The authors explore how the rise of responsibility implicates underlying moral values in global politics.
Foreword
Studying moral responsibility in world politics sheds light on changing accountability relations, justice and legitimacy in global governance.
