Non-state Actors as Moral Entrepreneurs: a Transnational Perspective on Ethics Networks

Abstract

Non-state actors have traditionally played a significant role in the definition of moral codes in the international arena.¹ Some, like the Church, have made this their responsibility since their foundation, preceding the birth of modern states and the Westphalian system (see Ryall in this volume). Indeed, Christianity long aimed to monopolize the ethics of international relations, particularly in the definition of the notion of the just war.