Terrorism, Human Rights, and the Case for World Government

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Terrorism, Human Rights, and the Case for World Government

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One of the nation's leading military ethicists, Louis P. Pojman argues that globalism and cosmopolitanism motivate the need for greater international cooperation based on enforceable international law. The best way to realize the promises of globalism and cogent moral arguments for cosmopolitanism, Pojman contends, is through the establishment of a World Government. In very readable prose, Pojman begins with a description of the growing menace of non-state terrorism on people everywhere, and distinguishes 'old-style' from 'new-style' terrorism. In Chapter 2, he examines the virtues and vices of nationalism, comparing them to the promises and problems of cosmopolitanism. Pojman ultimately argues that enforceable international law which will promote peace and curtail terrorism requires that we endorse a form of 'soft nationalism.' This form of nationalism is ultimately compatible with a limited, republican form of world government. Chapter 3 addresses universal human rights, arguing against the notion that they are an ethnocentric product of Western culture, and providing an overall justification of human rights as correlative to moral duties. Pojman concludes on a hopeful note, characterizing his proposal for a World Government as an effective counter-measure, albeit ambitious and controversial, to terrorism and its causes.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Chapter 1: Terrorism
Part 3 Chapter 2: The Case for World Government
Part 4 Chapter 3: Universal Human Rights
Part 5 Conclusion

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Published Jul 27 2006
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 112
ISBN 9780742551602
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 230 x 147 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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