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Arguably, the English School is distinctive among approaches to International Relations (IR) theory for its formulation of a middle-ground ethics (Cochran 2009). While its philosophy of IR is not sorted tidily, the School has done important work mapping out the difficult terrain of ethics as interest and how one might balance ideas of the good, and individual morality, with the actualities of real-world politics and the practical desire to maintain an international society for the good of states and their peoples. To the extent that such concerns are laid out with any academic clarity has much to do with the English School and political philosophers concerned with international ethics would do well to engage with it.
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Cochran, M. (2013). Hedley Bull and John Dewey: Two Middle Grounders and a Pragmatic Approach to the Nuclear Dilemma. In: Navari, C. (eds) Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137290960_8
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