Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?

Download or read book Can Institutions Have Responsibilities? written by Toni Erskine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can institutions, in the sense of formal organizations, be considered vulnerable to moral burdens? The contributors to this book critically examine the idea of the 'collective' or 'institutional' moral agent in, inter alia , the guise of states, transnational corporations, the UN and international society. The viability of treating these entities as bearers of moral responsibilities is explored in the context of some of the most critical and debated issues and events in international relations, including the genocide in Rwanda, development aid, the Kosovo campaign and global justice.