Principled World Politics The Challenge of Normative International Relations

by Ruiz, Lester Edwin J.; Bello, Walden; Boulding, Elise; Broad, Robin; Cavanagh, John; Doyle, Michael; Galtung, Johan; Held, David; Johansen, Robert; Kaldor, Mary; Kothari, Rajni; Kratochwil, Friedrich; Lifton, Robert Jay; Mazrui, Ali A.; Mendlovitz, Saul;

• ISBN13: 9780742500648
• ISBN10: 0742500640
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-12
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Principled World Politics takes stock of contemporary normative international relations and aims to chart the future course of the discipline. The volume brings together the most innovative minds currently working in the field and presents their ideas on how to create a more humane world order. As normative IR enjoys a resurgence of interest, this unique and timely volume is the first to systematically organize and present contemporary scholarship and to set out a coherent agenda for the next century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Part 1: Introduction
The Resurgence and Metamorphosis of Normative International Relations: Principled Commitment and Scholarship in a New Millennium	1	(22)
Paul Wapner
Part 2: Critical Perspectives on International Relations
Both Globalization and Sovereignty: Re-Imagining the Political	23	(12)
R. B. J. Walker
Normative and Complexity Theories: Complementary Approaches to World Affairs	35	(15)
James N. Rosenau
Theory and Political Practice: Reflections on Theory Building in International Relations	50	(15)
Friedrich V. Kratochwil
The Uncertain Reach of Critical Theory	65	(14)
Radmila Nakarada
Part 3: Social Justice
Global Economic Inequalities: A Growing Moral Gap	79	(19)
Michael W. Doyle
Social Justice: Growing Consciousness, Receding Prospects	98	(14)
Rajni Kothari
Collective Identity, Social Movements, and the Limits of Political Dissent in Israel	112	(18)
Simona Sharoni
Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization	130	(21)
Vandana Shiva
Part 4: Economic Well-Being
Markets, Private Property, and the Possibility of Democracy	151	(15)
David Held
Reconceptualizing Global Poverty: Globalization, Marginalization, and Gender	166	(15)
James H. Mittelman
Ashwini Tambe
The Asian Financial Crisis: Heroes, Villains, and Accomplices	181	(10)
Walden Bello
Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives to Counter Corporate-Led Globalization	191	(18)
Robin Broad
John Cavanagh
Part 5: Peace
Enforcing Norms and Normalizing Enforcement for Humane Governance	209	(22)
Robert C. Johansen
The Underside of Peace: Reflections on Aum Shinrikyo	231	(9)
Robert Jay Lifton
An Axial Age? Imagining Peace for the New Millennium	240	(10)
Elise Boulding
From a Twentieth Century of War to a Twenty-First Century of Peace?	250	(11)
Johan Galtung
Part 6: Humane Governance
The Normative Promise of Nonstate Actors: A Theoretical Account of Global Civil Society	261	(14)
Paul Wapner
Technological Underdevelopment in the South: The Continuing Cold War	275	(9)
Ali A. Mazrui
Governance, Legitimacy, and Security: Three Scenarios for the Twenty-First Century	284	(16)
Mary Kaldor
The Age of Relativization: Toward a Twenty-First Century of Active Civil Society	300	(11)
Yoshikazu Sakamoto
Part 7: Conclusion
The Emergence of WOMP in the Normative Tradition: Biography and Theory	311	(11)
Saul Mendlovitz
Culture, Politics, and the Sense of the Ethical: Challenges for Normative International Relations	322	(27)
Lester Edwin J. Ruiz
Bibliography	349	(26)
Index	375	(20)
About the Contributors	395