| Description |
xv, 466 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in international relations ; 81 |
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Cambridge studies in international relations ; 81
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| Contents |
1. Argument, belief and culture -- 2. Ethical argument and argument analysis -- 3. Colonial arguments -- 4. Decolonizing bodies: ending slavery and denormalizing forced labour -- 5. Faces of humanitarianism, rivers of blood -- 6. Sacred trust -- 7. Self-determination -- 8. Alternative explanations, counterfactuals and causation -- 9. Poesis 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 proposes a theory of argument in world politics which focuses on the role of ethical arguments in fostering changes in long-standing practices. She examines five hundred years of history, analyzing the role of ethical arguments in colonialism, the abolition of slavery and forced labour, and decolonization. Pointing out that decolonization is the biggest change in world politics in the last five hundred years, the author examines ethical arguments from the sixteenth century justifying Spanish conquest of the Americas, and from the twentieth century over the fate of Southern Africa. The book also offers a prescriptive analysis of how ethical arguments could be deployed to deal with the problem of humanitarian intervention." -- Half t.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| LC no. |
2001043120 |
| ISBN |
052180244X cased |
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0521002796 paperback |
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