The Routledge handbook on responsibility in international relations Responsibility in international relations theory and practice : introducing the handbook Hannes Hansen Magnusson and Antje Vetterlein A plural theory of responsibility Ilan Zvi Baron The emergence of responsibility as a global scheme of governance Tomer Shadmy Human rights approach(es) to responsibility Brooke Ackerley Political responsibility in a globalized but fractured age Richard Beardsworth Moral IRresponsibility in world politics Peter Sutch Rationalization reticence and the demands of global social and economic justice Mark Busser Responsibility and authority in global governance Jelena Cupać and Michael Zürn Responsibility and the English school Victor Friedman The assigning and erosion of responsibility for the global environment Steven Bernstein Moral geographies of responsibility in the global agrifood system Tobias Gumbert and Doris Fuchs State responsibilities and international nuclear politics Laura Considine and James Souter Delegating moral responsibility in war : lethal autonomous weapons systems and the responsibility gap Elke Schwarz Negotiating protection through responsibility Erna Burai From Lisbon to Sendai : responsibilities in international disaster management Marco Krüger and Friedrich Gabel Responsible diplomacy : judgments wider national interests and diplomatic peace Markus Kornprobst Rising powers and responsibility Johannes Plagemann and Amrita Narlikar Responsibility as an opportunity : Chinas water governance in the Mekong region Yung Yung Chang Responsibility as practice : implications of UN Security Council responsibilization Holger Niemann Rebel with a cause : rebel responsibility in intrastate conflict situations Mitja Sienknecht What responsibility for international organisations : the independent accountability mechanisms of the multilateral development banks Susan Park The International Labour Organizations role to ensure decent work in a globalized economy : a contested responsibility Julia Drubel Business and responsibility for human rights in global governance David Jason Karp Social media actors : shared responsibility 3.0 Gabi Schlag Responsibility on the high seas Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre The role of humanitys responsibility towards biodiversity : the BBNJ Treaty Rachel Tiller Elizabeth Nyman Elizabeth Mendenhall and Elizabeth De Santo A responsibility to freeze : the Arctic as a complex object of responsibility Mathias Albert and Sebastian Knecht Responsibility for global finance : shareholders supervisors and stakeholders Michael Christopher Sardo and Erin Lockwood Diplomacy and responsibilities in the transnational governance of the cyber domain Andrea Calderaro Framing responsibility research in international relations Antje Wiener Academic responsibility in the face of climate change Patrick Th. Jackson Derridas ethics of decision and the politics of responding to others Stephan Engelkamp On potential and limits of the concept of responsibility as a reference point for the use of practical reason Sergio Dellavalle. What does responsibility mean in international relations (IR) This handbook brings together cutting edge research on the critical debates about responsibility that are currently being undertaken in IR theory. This handbook both reflects upon an emerging field based on an engagement in the most crucial theoretical debates and serves as a foundational text by showing how deeply a discussion of responsibility is embedded in broader questions of IR theory and practice. Contributions cover the way in which responsibility is theorized across different approaches in IR and relevant neighboring disciplines and demonstrate how responsibility matters in different policy fields of global governance. Chapters with an empirical focus zoom in on particular actor constellations of (emerging) states international organizations political movements or corporations or address how responsibility matters to structure the politics of global commons such as oceans resources or the Internet