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Ethics, economics and international relations: Towards a global moral community

The most relevant and urgent problems we have to deal with at present and in the near future are international in scope. If states are to try and solve them they need a guidance that only an international ethics can provide. In the political sphere though actions tend to be judged only by their effectiveness and in particular, in the international arena, states are supposed not the have duties, but just rights. This essay argues that an international ethics should exist and should be universalistic, that is to say states ought to take into account all human beings’ basic rights, and not only their own citizens’. In fact, nowadays an international ethics should be inspired by a sort of “extended universalism”, since future generations’ rights are to be protected as much as, or even more than, those of people living at present. Only in this long term perspective following the logic of sustainable development, on which the (quality of) life on Earth depends, seems to be reasonable.