Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?

Introduction: Making Sense of 'Responsibility' in International Relations: Key Questions and Concepts; T.Erskine PART I: IDENTIFYING MORAL AGENTS: STATES, GOVERNMENTS AND 'INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY' Assigning Responsibilities to Institutional Moral Agents: The Case of States and Quasi-states; T. Erskine Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Representing the State; D.Runciman Moral Agency and International Society: Reflections on Norms, the UN, the Gulf War, and the Kosovo Campaign; C.Brown PART II: OBSTACLES AND ALTERNATIVE QUESTIONS Collective Moral Agency and the Political Process; F.V.Harbour Constitutive Theory and Moral Accountability: Individuals, Institutions, and Dispersed Practices; M.Frost When Agents Cannot Act: International Institutions as 'Moral Patients'; C.Navari PART III: HARD CASES: ASSIGNING DUTIES NATO and the Individual Soldier as Moral Agents with Reciprocal Duties: Imbalance in the Kosovo Campaign; P.Cornish & F.V.Harbour The Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Constructing Corporate Moral Agency in the Global Apparel Industry; R.DeWinter PART IV: HARD CASES: APPORTIONING BLAME The Responsibility of Collective External Bystanders in Cases of Genocide: The French in Rwanda; D.Kroslak The United Nations and the Fall of Srebrenica: Meaningful Responsibility and International Society; A.F.Lang, Jr. PART V: CONCLUSIONS On 'Good Global Governance', Institutional Design and the Practices of Moral Agency; N.Rengger Global Justice: Aims, Arrangements and Responsibilities; C.Barry Selected Bibliography Index