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Virtue in Global Governance
Judgment and Discretion

Virtue in Global Governance offers a framework and vocabulary for discussing the virtues in international affairs.

Jan Klabbers (Author)

9781009168489, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 August 2022

304 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.61 kg

Since rules - legal, ethical or otherwise - cannot determine their own application, they require persons of flesh and blood to interpret and apply them in concrete cases. Presidents and prime ministers, judges, prosecutors, mediators, leaders of international organizations, and even religious leaders and public intellectuals make decisions on how best to understand rules and how best to apply them. It stands to reason that their character traits influence the sort of decisions they take. This book provides the first systematic framework for discussing global governance in terms of the virtues, and illustrates it with a number of detailed examples of concrete decision-making in specific situations. Virtue in Global Governance combines insights from law, ethics, and global governance studies in developing a unique approach to global governance and international law.

1. Introduction
2. Ethical challenges
3. The individual in global governance
4. Virtue ethics and global governance
5. On virtue and law
6. Operationalizing virtue
7. Understanding governance
8. Defining governance
9. Evaluating governance
10. Epilogue
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Subject Areas: Public international law [LBB], International law [LB], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]

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