Based on a wealth of original information and research, this book offers both a critical introduction to NGOs and a discussion of recent theoretical approaches which have either dismissed or wildly exaggerated their political significance.
Based on a wealth of original information and research, this book offers both a critical introduction to NGOs and a discussion of recent theoretical a...
Contemporary foreign policy is increasingly perceived to be about values rather than interests as traditionally conceived. Once marginal, ethics are today held to play a central role in foreign policy. This new book goes beyond current debates which locate the limitations to ethical foreign policy in the strategic and economic interests of nation-states. Rather than counter-posing interests and ethics, trying to find "hidden agendas," or emphasizing the double-standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this text brings together leading international theorists in order to develop a...
Contemporary foreign policy is increasingly perceived to be about values rather than interests as traditionally conceived. Once marginal, ethics are t...
This book provides a thematic account of the changing political philosophy of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas and Honneth. In addition to teasing out unexplored elements of political thought from the writings of important Frankfurt School intellectuals and their successors, the book seeks to establish the relevance of this tradition for contemporary political theory. Readers are offered an inside perspective, developed out of primary texts including some hitherto unused sources, which is combined with the outside perspective of non-Frankfurt School traditions such as cultural...
This book provides a thematic account of the changing political philosophy of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas and Honneth. In addition to t...
Spektakulare Aktionen gegen Mineralolkonzerne oder die Welthandelsorganisation haben in jungster Zeit die offentliche Aufmerksamkeit auf Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) gelenkt, die heute ahnlich kontrovers diskutiert werden wie fruher Burgerinitiativen oder die neuen sozialen Bewegungen. Die Wahrnehmung der neuen Organisationen folgt dabei einem gespaltenen Muster. Einerseits werden NGOs begrusst als eindemokratisierendes Element in politischen Entscheidungszusammenhangen, die langst uber den Nationalstaat hinaus gewachsen sind; andererseits wiederholen sich Einwande gegen die mangelnde...
Spektakulare Aktionen gegen Mineralolkonzerne oder die Welthandelsorganisation haben in jungster Zeit die offentliche Aufmerksamkeit auf Nichtregierun...
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation across borders.
Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the...
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resource...
Combining insights from the English School of International Relations and recent Frankfurt School works, Heins furthers the understanding of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in radically new and unexpected ways.
Combining insights from the English School of International Relations and recent Frankfurt School works, Heins furthers the understanding of internati...
