International Ethics: A Reference Handbook

The USA is such a large, comparatively self‐sufficient, and successful nation that it is scarcely surprising that most Americans think that America is the world. It is, therefore, most encouraging to come across a handbook, clearly aimed at American students of a sixth form/undergraduate level, devoted to international ethical issues.

Being the production of a single author, rather than the usual editorial conglomerate, there are some idiosyncrasies in this book. The section of brief biographical sketches of key international ethicists, for example, is a weird jumble, in alphabetical order, starting with Kofi Annan followed by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and going...