Introduction

beyond dichotomies

Hakan Seckinelgin

Hideaki Shinoda

pp. 1-7

in: Hakan Seckinelgin, Hideaki Shinoda (eds), Ethics and international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Abstract

The special issue of Millennium: Journal ofInternational Studies in 1998 focused on the discussion of ethics in International Relations. We shall further explore the topic in this book by specifying our theoretical perspective. The primary aim is to overcome the common propensity in the discipline of International Relations to discuss ethics within a binary framework of outmoded and untenable dichotomies.