The limits of ethics in international relations :natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition
[Book]
/ David Boucher
Oxford; New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2009.
vii, 421 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Classical natural law and the law of nations: the Greeks and the Romans -- Christian natural law: a universal morality -- Natural law, the law of nations, and the transition to natural rights -- Natural rights and social exclusion: cultural encounters -- Natural rights: descriptive and prescriptive -- Natural rights and their critics -- Slavery and racism in natural law and natural rights -- Nonsense upon stilts? Tocqueville, idealism, and the expansion of the moral community -- The human rights culture and its discontents -- Modern constitutive theories of human rights -- Human rights and the judicial revolution -- Women and human rights
International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects