Arguing for a middle ground between idealism and realism, this book considers the most pressing ethical and moral issues in contemporary international politics, including intervention, human rights and aid, and sets about reasoning how to resolve them in politically realistic ways.

1. The Terrain of the Middle Ground; Cornelia Navari 2. Are We Linguistically Left-Handed? In Search of Responsible, Ethical Subjects; Daniel Warner 3. Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice; Terry Nardin 4. Middle Ground Ethics and Human Rights; Mervyn Frost 5. Theorizing Secession: What should be the Relationship between the Ideal and the Empirical?; Mikulas Fabry 6. Global Constitutionalism as a Middle Ground Ethic; Anthony Lang Jr. 7. Beyond Order versus Justice: Middle Ground Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect; Mikael Baaz 8. Hedley Bull and John Dewey: Two Middle Grounders and a Pragmatic Approach to the Nuclear Dilemma; Molly Cochran 9. The Ethics of War, Innocence and Hard Cases: A Call for the Middle Ground; Milla Emilia Vaha 10. Authoritarianism, Anti-Imperialism and Intervention: The Precariousness of the Middle Ground; Chris Brown 11. Power Transitions, Emerging Powers and the Shifting Terrain of the Middle Ground; Andrew Hurrell