Order and Justice in International Relations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199251193 ISBN 13: 9780199251193

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

Synopsis

The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the 20th century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum conditions for coexistence in a pluralist, conflictual world. Justice was seen either as secondary or sometimes even as a challenge to order. Recent developments have forced a reassessment of this position. Firstly, many trends in the 1990s increased expectations of greater justice within a liberal and liberalizing international order - for example, in relation to human rights, humanitarian intervention, collective security, and self-determination. Second, globalization deepened the sense of ideational and material interdependence, prompting acknowledgement that we co-exist in a single world and that effective solutions to shared problems cannot be achieved without a concern for justice - especially as the negative aspects of globalization have become more evident.

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Review:

Editors John Lewis Gaddis, Andrew Hurrell, and Rosemary Foot make an outstanding contribution to international ethics in this volume by bringing together essays that appraise competing philosophical oreintations to order and justice and reassess how these different perspectives apply to the structures and processes of the contemporary international system. (Ethics & International Affairs)

About the Author:

Rosemary Foot is a Professor of International Relations and John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia, St Antony's College, University of Oxford. John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. Andrew Hurrell is a University Lecturer in International Relations and a Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199251193
• ISBN 13: 9780199251193
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Foot Rosemary