TONI ERSKINE is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. She was previously British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge. Dr Erskine is convenor of the British Academy Network on 'Ethics, Institutions and International Affairs' and associate editor of the journal International Relations. She has published work on 'institutional moral agency', the ethics of war and 'embedded cosmopolitanism'.

• Introduction: Making Sense of 'Responsibility' in International Relations: Key Questions and Concepts; T.Erskine PART I: IDENTIFYING MORAL AGENTS: STATES, GOVERNMENTS AND 'INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY' Assigning Responsibilities to Institutional Moral Agents: The Case of States and Quasi-states; T. Erskine Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Representing the State; D.Runciman Moral Agency and International Society: Reflections on Norms, the UN, the Gulf War, and the Kosovo Campaign; C.Brown PART II: OBSTACLES AND ALTERNATIVE QUESTIONS Collective Moral Agency and the Political Process; F.V.Harbour Constitutive Theory and Moral Accountability: Individuals, Institutions, and Dispersed Practices; M.Frost When Agents Cannot Act: International Institutions as 'Moral Patients'; C.Navari PART III: HARD CASES: ASSIGNING DUTIES NATO and the Individual Soldier as Moral Agents with Reciprocal Duties: Imbalance in the Kosovo Campaign; P.Cornish & F.V.Harbour The Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Constructing Corporate Moral Agency in the Global Apparel Industry; R.DeWinter PART IV: HARD CASES: APPORTIONING BLAME The Responsibility of Collective External Bystanders in Cases of Genocide: The French in Rwanda; D.Kroslak The United Nations and the Fall of Srebrenica: Meaningful Responsibility and International Society; A.F.Lang, Jr. PART V: CONCLUSIONS On 'Good Global Governance', Institutional Design and the Practices of Moral Agency; N.Rengger Global Justice: Aims, Arrangements and Responsibilities; C.Barry Selected Bibliography Index