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(2001) Ethics and international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The possibility of a cosmopolitan ethical order based on the idea of universal human rights
John Charvet
pp. 8-29
My concern in this chapter is with the possibility, which the near universal subscription to the idea of human rights offers, of a generally accepted conception of a cosmopolitan ethics that can serve as the basis of a normatively organised international society. Contrary to the views of the English School as represented by Hedley Bull or to those of Terry Nardin, I do not believe that a normative international order can be developed and maintained independently of the general acceptance of common ethical principles.1
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Charvet, J. (2001)., The possibility of a cosmopolitan ethical order based on the idea of universal human rights, in H. Seckinelgin & H. Shinoda (eds.), Ethics and international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 8-29.