Argument and Change in World Politics
Subtitle: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780521002790
Subjects: International relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; International relations--Moral and ethical aspects; Political Science / International Relations; Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: Why do people, either alone or in groups, choose one action and not another?
Description: Arguments have consequences in world politics that are as real as the military forces of states or the balance of power among them. Neta Crawford reveals how ethical arguments, not power politics or economics, explain decolonization, the greatest change in world politics to occur over the last five hundred years. The book also analyzes how argument might be used to to remake contemporary world politics, suggesting how such arguments apply to the issue of humanitarian intervention --