Book contents
- Virtue in Global Governance
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 170
- Virtue in Global Governance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
4 - Virtue Ethics and Global Governance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2022
- Virtue in Global Governance
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 170
- Virtue in Global Governance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
As highlighted earlier, whenever things go wrong, the immediate and inevitable response is to call for better rules, new rules, different rules, new institutions, or better institutions to apply the rules that already exist – or a combination of the above. This is curious, as usually there are some rules in place, and often enough, those rules were considered perfectly fine before things went wrong. Moreover, there is not always a lack of institutions to apply them either, whether on the international or domestic level. Still, time and again, rules are manipulated, ignored, stretched, departed from, bent, or reinterpreted. Even relatively clear and settled rules can suffer this fate, let alone rules that are less clear. It is the general argument of this book that a focus on virtue ethics may well come to be of assistance.
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- Virtue in Global GovernanceJudgment and Discretion, pp. 85 - 123Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022