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The Limits of Ethics in International Relations: Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition

The case for double weighting rests upon the generation of an extensive and complex concept, and the collection and analysis of a considerable body of material. Sustaining the thesis with reference to philosophical, political and practical evidence ranged over 14 chapters, coming to terms with a vast amount of evidence from the ancient Greeks to the present, applying theories of natural law, natural rights, and human rights, to issues of colonisation, racism, sexual discrimination, slavery and more. It took eleven years to write, and sustaining the complexity and contentiousness of the argument entailed presenting the ideas at dozens of conferences.