Argument and change in world politics : ethics, decolonization, and humanitarian intervention /

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Arguments have consequences in world politics that are as real as the military forces of states or the balance of power among them. Neta Crawford shows how ethical arguments, not power politics or economics, explain decolonization, the biggest change in world politics over the last five hundred year...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crawford, Neta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in international relations ; 81.
Subjects:
International relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Relations internationales > Aspect moral.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
Politische Ethik
Internationale Politik
Internationale betrekkingen.
Ethische aspecten.
Dekolonisatie.
Humanitaire interventie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Argument, belief, and culture
  • 2. Ethical argument and argument analysis
  • 3. Colonial arguments
  • 4. Decolonizing bodies: ending slavery and denormalizing forced labor
  • 5. Faces of humanitarianism, rivers of blood
  • 6. Sacred trust
  • 7. Self-determination
  • 8. Alternative explanations, counterfactuals, and causation
  • 9. Poiesis and praxis: toward ethical world politics.

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