Reason and Emotion in International Ethics

Renée Jeffery is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, Canberra. She is the author of Amnesty and Accountability: Persistence and Change from Athens to Aceh, Indonesia (2014), Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror (2008) and Hugo Grotius in International Thought (2006), and the editor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (2008) and, with Hun Joon Kim, Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific (Cambridge, 2013).

• 1. Ethics, emotions, and the human brain; 2. Rationalist cosmopolitan solutions to the problem of world poverty; 3. Moral sentiment theory; 4. The demise of moral sentiment theory; 5. What is an emotion?; 6. Moral judgment after neuroscience; 7. A sentimental solution.

'This innovative book establishes the foundation for what could be called 'sentimentalist cosmopolitanism'. Challenging the rationalist assumptions that underpin much of cosmopolitan thought, Renée Jeffery convincingly argues that reason and emotion are intrinsically linked as well as essential to both decision making and ethical judgement.' Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland