Morality among Nations

Mary Maxwell, Ph.D. , is the author of Human Evolution: A Philosophical Anthropology.

• Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Traditional Arguments concerning International Mortality 2. The Negative Position 3. The Positive Position 4. Assessment of the Negative and Positive Positions Part II: Sociobiological Hypotheses Pertinent to International Morality 5. The Biology of Morality 6. The Evolution of Intergroup Behavior 7. Cautions Regarding the Use of Sociobiology Part III: Critique and Conclusions 8. Critique of the Traditional Arguments concerning International Morality in the Light of the Sociobiological Hypotheses 9. International Morality and its Obstacles 10. An Afterword concerning Context Notes Selected Bibliography Index

"This is a very original approach to international relations and political science, in that it employs what is scientifically known about human nature as opposed to (what is) merely intuitively understood." — Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University"This book is a model of conceptual clarity and a convincing argument for the relevance of socio-biological thinking to international affairs. I know of no more coherent overview of the various approaches to international morality. It would be a most valuable volume on these grounds alone. However, it does much more than this, critically assessing each such approach, placing them all in a socio-biological context, and ultimately arguing in favour of the significance of international morality, despite all the obstacles to it in practice." — Dr. R. Pettman, University of Sydney