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Cosmopolitan peace
\"This book articulates a cosmopolitan theory of the principles which ought to regulate belligerents' conduct in the aftermath of war. Throughout, it relies on the fundamental principle that all human beings, wherever they reside, have rights to the freedoms and resources which they need to lead a flourishing life, and that national and political borders are largely irrelevant to the conferral of those rights. With that principle in hand, the book provides a normative defence of restitutive and reparative justice, the punishment of war criminals, the resort to transitional foreign administration as a means to govern war-torn territories, and the deployment of peacekeeping and occupation forces. It also outlines various reconciliatory and commemorative practices which might facilitate the emergence of trust amongst enemies and thereby improve prospects for peace. The book offers analytical arguments and normative conclusions, with many historical and/or contemporary examples.\"--Publisher's description.
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Max Weber and international relations
\"Max Weber explored the political, epistemological and ethical problems of modernity, and understood how closely connected they were. His efforts are imaginative, sophisticated, even inspiring, but also flawed. Weber's epistemological successes and failures highlight unresolvable tensions that are just as pronounced today and from which we have much to learn. This edited collection of essays offers novel readings of Weber's politics, approach to knowledge, rationality, counterfactuals, ideal types, power, bureaucracy, the state, history, and the non-Western world. The conclusions look at how some of his prominent successors have addressed or finessed the tensions of the epistemological between subjective values and subjective knowledge; the sociological between social rationalization and irrational myths; the personal among conflicting values; the political between the kinds of leaders democracies select and the national tasks that should be performed; and the tragic between human conscience and worldly affairs\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Das demokratische Paradox, Antagonismus und Agonie der globalen Ordnung: Chantal Mouffes Überlegungen zur internationalen Politik
Trotz der intensiven Diskussion poststrukturalistischer Ansätze in den Internationalen Beziehungen (IB) hat das sogenannte radikaldemokratische Denken bislang nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Radikaldemokratische Theoretiker*innen haben sich zugleich kaum mit Themen der internationalen Politik auseinandergesetzt. Eine Ausnahme bildet hier Chantal Mouffe, die sich in jüngerer Zeit unmittelbar mit Fragen der internationalen Politik befasst hat. Der vorliegende Artikel hat eine Bestandsaufnahme und Diskussion der Überlegungen Mouffes zur internationalen Politik zum Ziel. Mouffes diesbezügliche Reflexionen bauen im Wesentlichen auf ihrer Theorie des Politischen auf. Daher werden zunächst jene Aspekte ihrer Theorie dargelegt, auf die Mouffe in ihren internationalen Überlegungen rekurriert. Danach wird ihr auf dem Modell der agonistischen Politik fußender Vorschlag einer multipolaren Weltordnung besprochen. Hieran anschließend soll Mouffes Plädoyer für einen Pluralismus politischer Systeme und auch kulturspezifischer Menschenrechtsauffassungen thematisiert werden. In einem weiteren Schritt sind Mouffes Diagnose und Kritik einer Moralisierung der Politik zu erörtern, bevor ihre Skepsis gegenüber einer Ächtung des Krieges diskutiert wird. Der Artikel endet mit einigen einordnenden und ausblickhaften Bemerkungen zu Mouffes Ansatz in der internationalen Politik.
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The Incoherence of Institutional Reform: Decentralization as a Structural Solution to Immediate Political Needs
Institutional reforms are structural changes in the rules and norms of authority, with effects that are long-term and unpredictable on government, politics, and society. But leaders may undertake them to solve unrelated, discrete, short-term political problems. Understanding the latter is key to understanding the characteristics of many real reforms, and hence their fate. We introduce the concept of instrumental incoherence and use it to construct a theory of decentralization where reform is motivated by orthogonal objectives. We show that reformers’ incentives map onto the specifics of reform design via their side effects, not their main effects, which in turn lead to the medium- and long-term consequences eventually realized. We characterize downwardly accountable decentralization, which ties the hands of the center to empower local voters, vs. upwardly accountable decentralization, which ties the hands of local government to empower the center. We use these ideas to explain highly divergent outcomes in two extreme cases, Bolivia and Pakistan, using detailed, original evidence. Our analysis likely extends to a broader class of reforms where the incentives of agents pursuing a change, and the effects of that change, are highly asymmetric in time and dimension.
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The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics
John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and universalist theories of inter-state relations, international theory instead provides provincial analyses that celebrate and defend Western civilization as the subject of, and ideal normative referent in, world politics. Hobson also provides a sympathetic critique of Edward Said's conceptions of Eurocentrism and Orientalism, revealing how Eurocentrism takes different forms, which can be imperialist or anti-imperialist, and showing how these have played out in international theory since 1760. The book thus speaks to scholars of international relations and also to all those interested in understanding Eurocentrism in the disciplines of political science/political theory, political economy/international political economy, geography, cultural and literary studies, sociology and, not least, anthropology.
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Marxism and the oppression of women : toward a unitary theory
Marxism and the Oppression of Women opens up an original direction in the Marxist-feminist theorisation of gender and capitalist reproduction. This edition elaborates Lise Vogel's unique contribution via a new introduction and Vogel's 2000 article \"Domestic Labor Revisited.\".
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Understanding Liberal Democracy
This book collects Nicholas Wolterstorff's papers in political philosophy. While this collection includes some of Wolterstorff's earlier and influential work on the intersection between liberal democracy and religion, it also contains nine new essays in which Wolterstorff stakes out novel positions regarding the nature of liberal democracy, human rights, and political authority. The overall position is one that is intended to be an attractive alternative to so-called public reason liberalism defended by thinkers such as John Rawls. Of interest to philosophers, political theorists, and theologians, the book should engage a wide audience of those interested in how best to understand the nature of liberal democracy and its relation to religion.
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Rethinking Thinkers in International Relations: The Case for Global Thinkers of the International
In this article, we advocate for mainstream International Relations (IR) to acknowledge the agency of ‘global thinkers’ who have been overlooked or insufficiently engaged with in the discipline. This neglect stems from IR’s origins and formalisation that excludes diverse voices in its understanding of international thought. To address this issue, we propose a framework to actively engage with overlooked global thinkers, emphasising linguistic, regional, and gender diversity. Aligning with Global IR’s recognition that knowledge is universally produced, this undertaking highlights the intrinsically global nature of international thought. We present a framework that reviews, reframes, and rediscovers the contributions of global thinkers. Taken together, these three steps allow us to ‘re-think’ thinkers in IR, and make a case for their inclusion in the discipline. We structure our analysis into quantitative investigations of IR theory books, which provide an account of the discipline’s canonical thinkers and history of thought. This is followed by qualitative discussions on the value of global thinkers, exemplified by the illustrative cases of Andrés Bello and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. By highlighting their underappreciated contributions to topics such as sovereignty, international law, and cosmopolitanism, we advocate for their inclusion - amongst others - within the discipline. This article serves as an introductory intervention, setting the stage for further exploration of global thinkers within IR’s disciplinary core.
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Political Constitutionalism
Judicial review by constitutional courts is often presented as a necessary supplement to democracy. This book questions its effectiveness and legitimacy. Drawing on the republican tradition, Richard Bellamy argues that the democratic mechanisms of open elections between competing parties and decision-making by majority rule offer superior and sufficient methods for upholding rights and the rule of law. The absence of popular accountability renders judicial review a form of arbitrary rule which lacks the incentive structure democracy provides to ensure rulers treat the ruled with equal concern and respect. Rights based judicial review undermines the constitutionality of democracy. Its counter-majoritarian bias promotes privileged against unprivileged minorities, while its legalism and focus on individual cases distort public debate. Rather than constraining democracy with written constitutions and greater judicial oversight, attention should be paid to improving democratic processes through such measures as reformed electoral systems and enhanced parliamentary scrutiny.
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