ABSTRACT

This chapter proposes a critical approach to international ethics, arguing for a particular focus on space and relationality. It suggests that the production and use of space is a central way in which we constitute our international responsibilities, obligations and values. IR can easily miss this because of its limited spatial and ethico-political imagination. A critical approach can make an important intervention by seeking to reclaim the everyday ethical practices of non-state spaces. This argument is illustrated by exploring the relational constitution of global cities.