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Title Sincerity in politics and international relations / edited by Sorin Balasuis & Sylvie Loriaus
Published England : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series Routledge advances in international relations and global politics
Contents PART I: Publicity. Political deception: lowering the bar -- The role of public reason's principle of sincerity -- Speaking on morality's behalf: when one should be silent and why -- What can we learn about political corruption from Kant's conceptions of honesty, publicity and truthfulness?; PART II: Rhetoric. The political rhetoric of administrative ethics: Obama vs. the cynics -- A Kantian rhetoric of sincerity: politics, truth and truthfulness -- Making sense: the possibility of truthfulness in politics -- On doubt and otherness: deconstructing power and dissent.; PART III: Institutions. Political dissimulation à la Kant: two limits of the sincerity requirement -- Pretending peace: provisional political trust and sincerity in Kant and Améry -- Governing by trust: sincerity as a procedural fairness norm -- Truth-telling and right-speaking in European integration politics: from theory to practice and back
Summary This work examines concept of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters should they work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality
Analysis politics
political theory
Notes In English
Subject Politicians.
Sincerity.
Politics, Practical.
International relations.
politicians.
international relations.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
International relations
Politicians
Politics, Practical
Sincerity
Form Electronic book
Author Baiasu, Sorin, editor
Loriaux, Sylvie, editor
ISBN 9780203762257
0203762258
0415704170
9780415704175
9781134489886
1134489889
9781134489817
1134489811
9781134489954
1134489951