Projectdetails

Ethics and international relations are often seen as two different worlds which should not be mixed up. This vision is based on a world order in which - since the Peace of Westphalia (1648) - national states served as the prime actors on the global field. Still for many people and also a growing number of ethicists the idea of a supranational organization that carries responsibility for peace and security and global welfare is an appealing idea. The objective of the project is to assess if and to what extent ethical points of view have determined the founding of the United Nations and the evolution of its principles and policies and, vice versa, to what extent UN values and - perhaps even more important - UN practice influence normative theories on international relations. Did the international law regime that has been developed by the UN and UN-related organizations stimulate (renewed) attention for international morality? What role do present day normative theories play in the discussion on a more effective United Nations for the twenty-first century?

Artikelen

• J.J.G. van der Bruggen (2006). Idealisme, realisme en prudentie. Het Vaticaan en de internationale politiek.
• N.J. Schrijver (2006). The Future of the Charter of the United Nations.
• N.J. Schrijver (2007). Reforming the UN Security Council in Pursuance of Collective Security.
• O. Spijkers (2007). Two Futures of Cosmopolitanism.
• O. Spijkers (2007). Legal mechanisms to establish accountability for the genocide in Srebrenica.
• K. Dr. van der Bruggen (2007). Van Kant tot Benedictus, bouwstenen voor een mondiale ethiek. pp. 32-40.
• prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver (2008). De nieuwe VN-Raad voor de Rechten van de Mens: was het sop de kool waard?.
• prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver (2008). Kroniek van het Internationaal Publiekrecht.
• N.J. Schrijver (2009). Eroding the primacy of the UN system of collective security.
• O. Spijkers (2009). The immunity of the United Nations in relation to the genocide in Srebrenica in the eyes of a Dutch District Court.
• N.J. Schrijver (2009). Pax Obama: een internationaalrechtelijke agenda.
• K. van der Bruggen (2009). Alle kernwapens de wereld uit?.
• K. van der Bruggen (2009). Rechtvaardige oorlog traditie vanuit kerkelijk perspectief.

Bijdragen aan boeken

• J.J.G. van der Bruggen, H. Groen, E.J.K. Sijpestein (2006). Het nieuwe missieuur: overwegingen bij democratisering als opdracht. in: De slag om de globale democratie. pp. 68-79.
• J.J.G. van der Bruggen, B. Boomert, Th. van den Hoogen, R.A. Wessel (2006). De kleine polder en de grote wereld; vrede en veiligheid in de verkiezingsprogramma's. in: Jaarboek Vrede en Veiligheid 2006.
• N.J. Schrijver, A. Pellet, R. Chemain (2006). Les valeurs générales et le droit des Nations Unies. in: La Charte des Nations Unies, constitution mondiale?.
• N.J. Schrijver, J.W. Sap, Th. Jansen, J. Nijman (2007). De Verenigde Naties in de 21ste eeuw. in: Burgers en barbaren..
• prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver, Y. Daudet (2008). The Institution of Permanent Adjudicatory Bodies and Recourse to ad hoc Tribunals. in: Topicality of the 1907 Hague Conference for the Second Peace Conference.
• prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver, J. Goldschmidt (2008). Unravelling State Sovereignty? The Controversy on the Right of Indigenous Peoples to Permanent Sovereignty over their Natural Wealth and Resources. in: Changing Perceptions of Sovereignty and Human Rights.
• prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver, H.C. Bugge (2008). Development: The Neglected Dimension in the Post-Rio International Law of Sustainable Development. in: Sustainable Development in International and National Law.
• prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver, M. Wladimiroff (2008). From The Hague to San Francisco and Back to The Hague: The Ban on the Use of Force in International Relations. in: The Hague Legal Capital?.
• prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver (2008). International Organisations, Democracy and Good Governance: do they practice what they preach?. in: Democracy and Development.
• K. van der Bruggen (2008). Van nieuwe vredesbewegingen en professionele vredesorganisaties: ontwikkelingen in de periode 1983-2008. in: Jaarboek Vrede en Veiligheid 2008. Internationale vraagstukken en het Nederlands perspectief.
• K. van der Bruggen (2009). Nuclear Ethics. in: A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology.
• K. van der Bruggen (2009). Science of Mass Destruction: How Biosecurity Became an Issue for Academies of Science. in: Biosecurity. Origins, Transformations and Practices.
• K. van der Bruggen (2009). Other Wars, Other Norms?. in: Peace, Security and Development in an Era of Globalization. The Integrated Security Approach viewed from a Multidisciplinary Perspective.
• N.J. Schrijver (2009). After us, the deluge? The position of future generations of humankind in international environmental law. in: Climate Change and Sustainable Development.
• K. van der Bruggen, G. Molier (2009). Other Wars, Other Norms?. in: Peace, Security and Development in an Era of Globalization..