Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror [Paperback]

This book seeks to?determine what is meant by 'evil' when used to describe actors and events in international politics. Focusing on the history of evil in western secular and religious thought,?it reintroduces a classical understanding of evil as the means to which we seek to understand otherwise meaningless human suffering.Understanding Evil * The Meaning of Suffering * The Problem of Evil * Moral Evil * Moral Monsters * Evil as Thoughtlessness * The War on Evil * ConclusionRen?e Jeffery is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Adelaide.