The Politics of International Political Theory: Reflections on the Works of Chris Brown

ISBN-13: 9783319932774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 268 str.

Mathias Albert; Anthony Lang

Opis

This book assesses the impact of the work of Chris Brown in the field of International Political Theory. The volume engages with general issues of IPT as well as basic issues such as the use and role of practical reasoning and presents a nuanced understanding about issues regarding the legitimacy of war and violence.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Politics of International Political Theory

Anthony F Lang, Jr. and Mathias Albert

Part I: Judgement, Reason, and Humanity

Chapter 2 Dogmatic Anti-Dogmatism: Learning from Chris Brown

Colin Wight

Chapter 3 The Politics of Judgment in International Political Theory

Kimberly Hutchings

Chapter 4 Practical Judgement: Inconsistent – or Incoherent?

Nicholas Rengger

Chapter 5 Humanity in International Political Theory: Chris Brown and the Principles, Politics and Practice of Humanitarianism

Henry Radice

Part II: War and Violence, Human Rights and Global Institutions

Chapter 6 Between Sovereign Judgment and the International Rule of Law: The Protection of People from Mass Atrocities

Lothar Brock

Chapter 7 War and the ‘Brotherhood of Hooliganism’

Ken Booth

Chapter 8 Emotions and Political Limitations: Working through the Broken Middle with Chris Brown

Brent Steele

Chapter 9 The Politics of Human Rights

David Owen 

Chapter 10 The Ethics of Brexit

Mervyn Frost

Chapter 11 Cultural Incomprehension and the Tragic Sense of Life

David Boucher

Chapter 12 Chris Brown’s liberal conservatism, the process of moral learning and global institutional transformations

Heikki Patomäki

Part III: Coda

Chapter 13 In Response

Chris Brown

Chapter 14 Postscriptum: Chris Brown, and International Political Theory anywhere else but in Bayreuth

Mathias Albert and Anthony Lang

 

O autorze

Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is author of Ordnung und Regieren in der Weltgesellschaft (2018) and A Theory of World Politics (2016).

Anthony F. Lang Jr. is Professor of International Political Theory in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Blurb

This book assesses the impact of the work of Chris Brown in the field of International Political Theory. The volume engages with general issues of IPT as well as basic issues such as the use and role of practical reasoning and presents a nuanced understanding about issues regarding the legitimacy of war and violence. It explores questions that pertain to human rights, morality, and ethics, and generally an outlook for devising a ‘better’ world. The project is ideal for audiences with interest in International Relations, Ethics and Morality Studies and International Political Theory. 

Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is author of Ordnung und Regieren in der Weltgesellschaft(2018) and A Theory of World Politics (2016).

Anthony F. Lang Jr. is Professor of International Political Theory in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK.