Download or read book Ethics, Economics and International Relations written by Peter G. Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown offers a historically grounded, argument for human rights to bodily integrity; to moral, religious, and political choice; and to subsistence that all persons owe each other irrespective of nationality. He also argues that we have direct moral obligations to non-humans - he calls this "respect for the commonwealth of life". Honoring these obligations requires a thorough re-grounding of human institutions. The book concludes with the argument that traditional prerogatives of nation states need to be transparent to enforceable international standards concerning human rights and the commonwealth of life, and offers a practical agenda for beginning this fundamental reorientation.