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
Summary
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 years
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-456) and index
