The problem of harm in world policitics
Subtitle: theoretical investigations
By: Andrew Linklater
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521179843; 9781107004436
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / General; Moral and ethical aspects; Political aspects; International relations; Harm reduction
Description: "The need to control violent and non-violent harm has been central to human existence since societies first emerged. This book analyses the problem of harm in world politics which stems from the fact that societies require the power to harm in order to defend themselves from internal and external threats, but must also control the capacity to harm so that people cannot kill, injure, humiliate or exploit others as they please. Andrew Linklater analyses writings in moral and legal philosophy that define and classify forms of harm, and discusses the ways in which different theories of international relations suggest the power to harm can be controlled so that societies can co-exist with the minimum of violent and non-violent harm. Linklater argues for new connections between the English School study of international society and Norbert Elias's analysis of civilizing process in order to advance the study of harm in world politics"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: The concept of harm; title: The harm principle and global ethics; title: Harm and international relations theory; title: The sociology of civilizing processes; title: Historical sociology and world politics structures, norms and emotions; title: Civilizing processes and international systems.