Nicholas A. Sims - Explorations in Ethics and International Relations

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Volume 9

EXPLORATIONS IN ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Essays in Honour of Sydney D. Bailey

Edited by
Nicholas A. Sims

First published in 1981 by Croom Helm Ltd

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1981 Nicholas A. Sims

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Explorations in Ethics and International Relations

ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF SYDNEY D. BAILEY

EDITED BY NICHOLAS A. SIMS

1981 Nicholas A. Sims
Croom Helm Ltd, 2-10 StJohn's Road, London SW11

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Explorations in ethics and international relations.
1. International relations - Moral and religious aspects.
I. Bailey, Sydney D.
II. Sims, Nicholas A.
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English possesses no standard term to denote a volume of essays in someone's honour. Instead we are obliged to borrow from other languages: a Festschrift, Mlanges offertes or Liber amicorum. Of these three Liber amicorum is peculiarly appropriate, for this is indeed a book written by friends of the person it is intended to honour.

Sydney Bailey inspires friendship, as well as respect, among those who have had the good fortune to enjoy his acquaintance. His contribution to policy and scholarship in the fields which he has made his own would assuredly be recognised, were he the occupant of a university chair, by the publication of essays by academic colleagues and former students, collated in his faculty or department. Sydney Bailey's life, however, has eschewed the conventional cursus honorum alike of public office and of the academic career. In the humbler role he has chosen for himself, he has instead bestraddled the too-often mutually uncomprehending worlds of the scholar and the practitioner in international affairs and of the churches and Whitehall too; made connections where they urgently needed to be made, between research and policy, politics and ethics, religion and diplomacy; and brought together for serious discussion and social fellowship people with so little apparently in common that without his determined persuasion they might well never have met. His has been, in the title of one of his more recent addresses (see p. ), the vocation of reconciliation.

In this volume a group of his friends have sought to honour Sydney Bailey at 65 by means of essays which are broadly located in fields to which he has made a distinguished contribution, and which at the same time have something useful to say on their own account. Inevitably not every area of concern in which he has made his mark could be included within the covers of one book of moderate length. We hope, however, to have demonstrated in these essays some of the most important concerns and interconnections on which Sydney Bailey has laid emphasis; explored a fair range of topics appropriate to our purpose; and conveyed in so doing something of the debt we owe him for his instruction, encouragement and friendship over many years.

The first two essays in this collection each correspond to a major and distinctive interest of Sydney Bailey: the participation of China in international relations, and the protection of human rights through international procedures. Dr Wolf Mendl, Reader in War Studies in the University of London, examines the intriguing interplay of moral principles and power politics in the UN record of the People's Republic of China. Dr Rosalyn Higgins, Professor of International Law in the University of London, contributes an original study of an aspect of international human rights law in rapid evolution: the award of damages for violation of one's rights.

'When Christian duty and national interest coincide, there is no problem; but when they diverge, that is when things become interesting,' remarked Sydney Bailey during one of the many ecumenical committee meetings and drafting exercises to which he has given generously of his time. This compelling interest in the interplay or conflict of ethical demands with the dominant patterns of professional life whether military, diplomatic, political or scientific is represented here, first in a pioneering study of the moral and legal duties incumbent upon defence scientists, and second in a fresh exploration of that perennially tantalising problem, the ethics of security. We owe these essays respectively to Barrie Paskins, Lecturer in War Studies at King's College, London, and the Reverend Edward Rogers, for many years secretary of the Christian Citizenship Department of the Methodist Church. Next the ethics of risk are considered, in more than one sphere of public policy where difficult choices have to be made, by the Reverend Canon G .R. Dunstan, Professor of Moral and Social Theology at King's College and Dean of the Faculty of Theology in the University of London. We remain in the realm of moral theology with the reflections on compromise offered by the Right Reverend Dr John Habgood, Bishop of Durham. His fellow bishop, Dr Hermann Kunst, reflects on the peace of God and peace among nations in his Foreword, which is also a tribute to Sydney Bailey from the representative of an older generation and one who has been particularly involved in church-state-army relations in the Federal Republic of Germany. It should come as no surprise to find that among the authors contributing to this book over half are members of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament (CCADD), an international and ecumenical body which owes much to Sydney Bailey's devoted nurture and skilful chairmanship and whose membership reflects in its diversity his concern to promote mutual understanding across barriers of incomprehension.