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There is no subject more important for the discussion of international relations than that of morality. By morality I mean not only the approach to be taken to a set of unavoidable moral issues that arise in international relations, but also the means to arrive at areas of agreement and standards, and the means to implement and enforce such approaches. The reasons for this importance are several, but there can be little debate as to the starting point: international relations — whether seen as relations between states, or seen as a broader set of relations across frontiers, bypassing in whole or in part the strictly interstate — raises moral issues on which choice, by commission or omission, is essential.
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Halliday, F. (1998). Morality in International Affairs: a Case for Robust Universalism. In: McSweeney, B. (eds) Moral Issues in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26464-3_2
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