Ethics Diversity and World Politics

<em>Ethics Diversity and World Politics</em> argues for the importance of the diversity of human ethical systems in world politics defending the vitality of a 'pluralist' position in debates about how to ethically assess and respond to political challenges. <p/>Rooted in the 'English School' tradition of international relations theory the book offers the first fundamental reformulation of the 'traditional pluralism' that fails to offer a persuasive defence of the normative desirability of ethical diversity in human affairs resulting in a pluralist ethic that is statist conservative and unable to engage effectively with contemporary world politics. The book develops an alternative account of 'revived pluralism' rooted in a defence of the normative desirability of ethical diversity that draws upon political philosophy political theory and sociology to establish a far more rigorous methodological basis for a pluralist position whilst also enabling assessment of the limits of defensible diversity.<br>