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xi, 263 pages ; 25 cm Is it morally acceptable for one nation to police the world? Are there circumstances under which one nation has either the right or the obligation to dominate the others? This important and timely book is the first to examine these and other moral issues raised by America's status as the sole world superpower after the end of the Cold War. Brilmayer's book is a brilliant demonstration of the importance of normative evaluation and of the moral problems underlying the enforcement of international law Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-259) and index Introduction: the world's policeman? -- Hegemony -- Anarchy -- Global liberalism -- Contemporaneous consent --Ex ante consent -- Hypothetical consent and the provision of public goods -- Substantive morality -- Global liberalism and the "new world order" -- Statism -- Beyond consent

Author

Brilmayer, Lea

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300060331

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences