The Dark Sides Of Virtue

Author : David Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400840731

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The Dark Sides of Virtue by David Kennedy Pdf

In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response. Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights, refugee protection, economic development, and for humanitarian limits to the conduct of war. It takes us from the jails of Uruguay to the corridors of the United Nations, from the founding of a non-governmental organization dedicated to the liberation of East Timor to work aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Kennedy shares the satisfactions of international humanitarian engagement--but also the disappointments of a faith betrayed. With humanitarianism's new power comes knowledge that even the most well-intentioned projects can create as many problems as they solve. Kennedy develops a checklist of the unforeseen consequences, blind spots, and biases of humanitarian work--from focusing too much on rules and too little on results to the ambiguities of waging war in the name of human rights. He explores the mix of altruism, self-doubt, self-congratulation, and simple disorientation that accompany efforts to bring humanitarian commitments to foreign settings. Writing for all those who wish that "globalization" could be more humane, Kennedy urges us to think and work more pragmatically. A work of unusual verve, honesty, and insight, this insider's account urges us to embrace the freedom and the responsibility that come with a deeper awareness of the dark sides of humanitarian governance.

Author : Ritu Mathur
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498547185

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Red Cross Interventions in Weapons Control by Ritu Mathur Pdf

This book brings together humanitarianism, arms control, and disarmament in the field of global governance and focuses on the International Committee of the Red Cross as a leading humanitarian actor. The interdisciplinary approach articulates innovative tools crafted both contingently and strategically to engage with the problem of weapons.

Author : Anson D. Shupe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015025228720

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The Darker Side of Virtue by Anson D. Shupe Pdf

Examines incidents of scandal, corruption, abuse of power, and murder within the Mormon Church, in a case study of virtue gone astray.

Author : Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509911769

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Dominus Mundi by Pier Giuseppe Monateri Pdf

This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe. In particular it examines the expression 'dominus mundi', following it through the texts of the medieval jurists – the Glossators and Post-Glossators – up to the political thought of Hobbes. Understanding the concept of dominus mundi sheds light on how medieval jurists understood ownership of individual things; it is more complex than it might seem; and this book investigates these complexities. The book also offers important new insights into Thomas Hobbes, especially with regard to the end of dominus mundi and the replacement by Leviathan. Finally, the book has important relevance for contemporary political theory. With fading of political diversity Monateri argues “that the actual setting of globalisation represents the reappearance of the Ghost of the Dominus Mundi, a political refoulé – repressed – a reappearance of its sublime nature, and a struggle to restore its universal legitimacy, and take its place.” In making this argument, the book adds an important original vision to current debates in legal and political philosophy.

Author : Jan Klabbers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009203227

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Virtue in Global Governance by Jan Klabbers Pdf

Since rules - legal, ethical or otherwise - cannot determine their own application, they require persons of flesh and blood to interpret and apply them in concrete cases. Presidents and prime ministers, judges, prosecutors, mediators, leaders of international organizations, and even religious leaders and public intellectuals make decisions on how best to understand rules and how best to apply them. It stands to reason that their character traits influence the sort of decisions they take. This book provides the first systematic framework for discussing global governance in terms of the virtues, and illustrates it with a number of detailed examples of concrete decision-making in specific situations. Virtue in Global Governance combines insights from law, ethics, and global governance studies in developing a unique approach to global governance and international law.

Author : Alasdair Gordon-Gibson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538151044

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Humanitarians on the Frontier by Alasdair Gordon-Gibson Pdf

The book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063234624

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Military Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mikkel Thorup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136946783

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An Intellectual History of Terror by Mikkel Thorup Pdf

This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist ideologists in order to reconstruct the 'deadly dialogue' between them. This work investigates an extensive array of violent phenomena and actors, trying to broaden the scope and ambition of the history of terrorism studies. It combines an extensive reading of state and terrorist discourse from various sources with theorizing of modernity's political, institutional and ideological development, forms of violence, and its guiding images of self and other, order and disorder. Chapters explore groups of actors (terrorists, pirates, partisans, anarchists, Islamists, neo-Nazis, revolutionaries, soldiers, politicians, scholars) as well as a broad empirical source material, and combine them into a narrative of how our ideas and concepts of state, terrorism, order, disorder, territory, violence and others came about and influence the struggle between the modern state and its challengers. The main focus is on how the state and its challengers have conceptualized and legitimated themselves, defended their existence and, most importantly, their violence. In doing so, the book situates terrorism and anti-terrorism within modernity's grander history of state, war, ideology and violence. This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, political violence, sociology, philosophy, and Security Studies/IR in genera Mikkel Thorup is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Author : James Crawford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004268098

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Chance, Order, Change: The Course of International Law, General Course on Public International Law by James Crawford Pdf

Also available as an e-book Chance, Order, Change: The Course of International Law, General Course on Public International Law by J. Crawford The course of international law over time needs to be understood if international law is to be understood. This work aims to provide such an understanding. It is directed not at topics or subject headings — sources, treaties, states, human rights and so on — but at some of the key unresolved problems of the discipline. Unresolved, they call into question its status as a discipline. Is international law “law” properly so-called ? In what respects is it systematic ? Does it — can it — respect the rule of law ? These problems can be resolved, or at least reduced, by an imaginative reading of our shared practices and our increasingly shared history, with an emphasis on process. In this sense the practice of the institutions of international law is to be understood as the law itself. They are in a dialectical relationship with the law, shaping it and being shaped by it. This is explained by reference to actual cases and examples, providing a course of international law in some standard sense as well.

Author : Athol Fitzgibbons
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191521768

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Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue by Athol Fitzgibbons Pdf

This study analyses the influence that Adam Smith's philosophy had on his Wealth of Nations, and reveals the unity in Smith's extensive system of morals, politics, and economics. It concludes that Smith was motivated by a political ideal, which was moral liberalism.

Author : Nancy E. Snow,Darcia Narvaez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429536441

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Self, Motivation, and Virtue by Nancy E. Snow,Darcia Narvaez Pdf

This volume features new findings by nine interdisciplinary teams of researchers on the topics of self, motivation, and virtue. Nine chapters bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology advance our substantive understanding of these important topics, and showcase a variety of research methods of interdisciplinary interest. Essays on Buddhism and the self in the context of romantic relationships, the development of personal projects and virtue, the notion of self-distancing and its moral impact, virtues as self-integrated traits, humility and the self in loving encounter, the importance of nation and faith in motivating virtue in western and non-western countries, roles for the self and virtue in eudaimonic growth, overcoming spiritual violence and sacramental shame in Christian communities, and an investigation into the moral self highlight the range and diversity of topics explored in this volume. The concept of deep integration also characterizes this work: each member of the interdisciplinary teams was fully and equally invested in their project from inception to completion. This approach invites teams to examine their disciplinary assumptions, rethink familiar concepts, and adjust methodologies in order to view their topics with fresh eyes. The result is not only new findings of substantive and methodological interest, but also an interesting glimpse into the thinking of the researchers as they sought interdisciplinary common ground in their research. Self, Motivation, and Virtue will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, moral psychology, neuroscience, and sociology who are working on these topics.

Author : Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801465086

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Humanitarianism in Question by Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of the last century, the principles of humanitarianism were guided by neutrality, impartiality, and independence. More recently, some humanitarian organizations have begun to relax these tenets. The recognition that humanitarian action can lead to negative consequences has forced humanitarian organizations to measure their effectiveness, to reflect on their ethical positions, and to consider not only the values that motivate their actions but also the consequences of those actions. In the indispensable Humanitarianism in Question, Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies.

Author : Stephen Cherry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472900821

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The Dark Side of the Soul by Stephen Cherry Pdf

'Sin' is an old-fashioned word for some startlingly contemporary problems. Far from being about trivial naughtiness or seedy self-indulgence, it's about the financial scandals that have rocked our world, and most of the ills that beset us today. In The Dark Side of the Soul, the author explains and illustrates the 'Seven Deadly Sins' with contemporary examples. In clear and accessible language, he shows that the traditional Christian concept of sin is a vital tool in understanding what is wrong with human beings. Far from leading people into a guilt-trap, 'sin' is a healthy and truthful word that can help to set us free. Human beings are neither intrinsically evil nor congenitally inclined to virtue, but many of the problems and predicaments that trouble us today can be better understood, and more effectively resolved, if their deeper roots are taken into account. In this fresh interpretation, the author shows that, for example, our economic problems, and our fixation on financial criteria in decision-making, can be understood through the twin lenses of avarice and lust. Our obsessive busyness is a manifestation of sloth; and our desire to control, and our perfectionism, are outworkings of spiritual pride. Crucially, although sin is an important and necessary word for people to understand and come to terms with, it is never, in the Christian worldview, the last word.

Author : B. S. Chimni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107065260

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International Law and World Order by B. S. Chimni Pdf

This book offers a critique of the principal contemporary approaches to international law alongside its own novel perspectives.

Author : Lena Khor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119791

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Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network by Lena Khor Pdf

In her innovative study of human rights discourse, Lena Khor takes up the prevailing concern by scholars who charge that the globalization of human rights discourse is becoming yet another form of cultural, legal, and political imperialism imposed from above by an international human rights regime based in the Global North. To counter these charges, she argues for a paradigmatic shift away from human rights as a hegemonic, immutable, and ill-defined entity toward one that recognizes human rights as a social construct comprised of language and of language use. She proposes a new theoretical framework based on a global discourse network of human rights, supporting her model with case studies that examine the words and actions of witnesses to genocide (Paul Rusesabagina) and humanitarian organizations (Doctors Without Borders). She also analyzes the language of texts such as Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. Khor's idea of a globally networked structure of human rights discourse enables actors (textual and human) who tap into or are linked into this rapidly globalizing system of networks to increase their power as speaking subjects and, in so doing, to influence the range of acceptable meanings and practices of human rights in the cultural sphere. Khor’s book is a unique and important contribution to the study of human rights in the humanities that revitalizes viable notions of agency and liberatory network power in fields that have been dominated by negative visions of human capacity and moral action.