Right And Wronged In International Relations

Author : Brian C. Rathbun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009344708

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Right and Wronged in International Relations by Brian C. Rathbun Pdf

Brian Rathbun argues against the prevailing wisdom on morality in international relations, both the commonly held belief that foreign affairs is an amoral realm and the opposing concept that norms have gradually civilized an unethical world. By focusing on how states respond to being wronged rather than when they do right, Rathbun shows that morality is and always has been virtually everywhere in international relations – in the perception of threat, the persistence of conflict, the judgment of domestic audiences, and the articulation of expansionist goals. The inescapability of our moral impulses owes to their evolutionary origins in helping individuals solve recurrent problems in their anarchic environment. Through archival case studies of German foreign policy; the analysis of enormous corpora of text; and surveys of Russian, Chinese, and American publics, this book reorients how we think about the role of morality in international relations.

Author : Brian C. Rathbun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009344715

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Right and Wronged in International Relations by Brian C. Rathbun Pdf

Countering the opposing narratives of political amorality and moral progressivism, Rathbun provides a new approach to the place of morality in international politics. This book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations and security studies, especially those interested in normative, psychological and evolutionary approaches.

Author : Frederick Northedge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0715605755

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International Relations by Frederick Northedge Pdf

Author : Joseph Frankel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001678302

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International Politics by Joseph Frankel Pdf

Author : James Eayrs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1966 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59828818

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Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy by James Eayrs Pdf

Author : Gideon Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136812491

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Politicising Ethics in International Relations by Gideon Baker Pdf

The ethics of hospitality – the welcome of the foreigner – is implied in all moral debate in international relations ranging from questions of asylum to those of humanitarian intervention. Why then has there been so little reflection on hospitality in the study of international relations to date? Seeking to correct this striking omission, and making an important and original contribution to debates about ethics in international relations in the process, Baker outlines a theory of cosmopolitanism as hospitality which goes beyond existing cosmopolitanisms. He argues that we must understand cosmopolitanism not as the pursuit of a world in which there are no more foreigners but as the welcome of the foreigner. However, though hospitality calls for a welcome, there is always a decision on the welcome to be made. Cosmopolitanism as hospitality is therefore always as much a politics as it is an ethics. Addressing issues of central concern for those who seek to understand our obligations to strangers, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, ethics, and political and international theory.

Author : Clifford Bob
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812201345

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The International Struggle for New Human Rights by Clifford Bob Pdf

In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms before the United Nations and other international bodies. Often, these claims have met strong resistance from governments and corporations. More surprisingly, even apparent allies, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other nongovernmental organizations, have voiced misgivings, arguing that rights "proliferation" will weaken efforts to protect their traditional concerns: civil and political rights. Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? How do local activists transform long-standing problems into universal rights claims? When and why do human rights groups, governments, and international organizations endorse new rights? The International Struggle for New Human Rights is the first book to address these issues. Focusing on activists who advance new rights, the book introduces a framework for understanding critical strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional problems and embrace pressing new ones. Essays in the volume consider rights activism by such groups as the South Asian Dalits, sexual minorities, and children of wartime rape victims, while others explore new issues such as health rights, economic rights, and the right to water. Examining both the successes and failures of such campaigns, The International Struggle for New Human Rights will be a key resource not only for scholars but also for those on the front lines of human rights work.

Author : Peter M. Haas,John A. Hird
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608717958

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Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to InternationalRelations, 2nd Edition by Peter M. Haas,John A. Hird Pdf

Debate-style readers can be effective and provocative teaching tools in the classroom. But if the readings are not in dialogue with one another, the crux of the debate is lost on students, and the reader fails to add real depth to the course. This book solves this issue by inviting 15 pairs of scholars and practitioners to address current and relevant questions in international relations through brief 'yes' and 'no' pieces.

Author : Milla Emilia Vaha
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786837875

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The Moral Standing of the State in International Politics by Milla Emilia Vaha Pdf

Kant’s moral and political philosophy has been important in developing ethical thinking in international relations. This study argues that his theory of the state is crucially important for understanding the moral agency of the state as it is discussed in contemporary debates. For Kant, it is argued that the state has not only duties but also, controversially, inalienable rights that ground its relationship to its citizens and to other states. Most importantly, the state – regardless of its governmental form or factual behaviour – has a right to exist as a state. The Kantian account provided, therefore, explores not only the moral agency but also the moral standing of the state, examining the status of different kinds of states in world politics and expectations towards their ethical behaviour. Every state has a moral standing that must be respected in a morally imperfect world gradually transforming towards the ideal condition of perpetual peace.

Author : Mervyn Frost
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521305129

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Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations by Mervyn Frost Pdf

An examination of the moral theory of war.

Author : Brian C. Rathbun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801442559

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Partisan Interventions by Brian C. Rathbun Pdf

Contesting the national interest : political parties and international relations -- Partisan lenses and historical frames : ideology, experience, and foreign policy preferences -- A faraway place of which we know little? : the politics of humanitarian intervention in Great Britain -- Never again war? : the interparty and intraparty politics of normalization in Germany -- The French exception? : presidential prerogatives and the public and private politics of intervention -- European army, militarized Europe, or European Europe? : the domestic politics of a security and defense policy for the European Union -- Parting ways.

Author : Sorin Baiasu,Sylvie Loriaux
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134489817

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Sincerity in Politics and International Relations by Sorin Baiasu,Sylvie Loriaux Pdf

This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality. The volume features an international cast of authors who specialize in the topic of sincerity in politics and international relations. Looking at how sincerity bears on political actions, practices, and institutions at national and international level, the introduction serves to place the chapters in the context of ongoing contemporary debates on sincerity in politics and international theory. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary issue in politics and international relations, including corruption, public hypocrisy, cynicism, trust, security, policy formulation and decision-making, political apology, public reason, political dissimulation, denial and self-deception, and will argue against the background of a Kantian view of sincerity as unconditional. Offering a significant comprehensive outlook on the practical limits of sincerity in political affairs, this work will be of great interest to both students and scholars.

Author : R. Jeffery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230612532

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Confronting Evil in International Relations by R. Jeffery Pdf

This book offers original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community has available to it in the aftermath of large-scale evils.

Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509507474

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What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It by Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today’s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the “next generation” of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN that makes it incapable of confronting contemporary global challenges and, more importantly, can we fix it? In this revised and updated third edition of his popular text, leading scholar of global governance Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization’s inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN’s many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN’s institutional ills might be “cured.” Weiss’s remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, he contends that substantial change is both plausible and possible.

Author : R. J. Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521323963

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Foreign Policy and Human Rights by R. J. Vincent Pdf

This is a book about the issue of human rights and the responses from the international community.