Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses new and emerging approaches to the study of international ethics. It provides ethical analysis of new and pressing issues and themes in the arena of International Relations and rethinks established paradigms and applying them to new contexts. The book introduces new directions in international ethics that depart from established paradigms and instead open up the prospect of doing ethics in international relations (IR) differently. It addresses the significance of complexity thinking to international ethics and provides a relational perspective that considers an encounter and entanglement with the other as a contingent and experimental practice across time, space, and across species. The book offers distinctive engagements with previously neglected and newly emerging approaches in international ethics, and examines the politics of knowledge production within ethics and IR.