Confronting Evil in International Relations
Title | Confronting Evil in International Relations PDF eBook |
Author | R. Jeffery |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2008-05-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230612539 |
This book offers original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community has available to it in the aftermath of large-scale evils.
Evil and International Relations
Title | Evil and International Relations PDF eBook |
Author | R. Jeffery |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2007-12-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230610358 |
This book seeks to determine what is meant by 'evil' when used to describe actors and events in international politics. Focusing on the history of evil in western secular and religious thought, it reintroduces a classical understanding of evil as the means to which we seek to understand otherwise meaningless human suffering.
Political Evil in a Global Age
Title | Political Evil in a Global Age PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Hayden |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2009-01-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113405792X |
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and debates surrounding globalization. In recent years the work of Arendt has gathered increasing interest from scholars in the field of international political theory because of its potential relevance for understanding international affairs. Focusing on the central theme of evil in Arendt’s work, this book weaves together elements of Arendt’s theory in order to engage with four major problems connected with contemporary globalization: genocide and crimes against humanity; global poverty and radical economic inequality; global refugees, displaced persons, and the ‘stateless’; and the destructive domination of the public realm by predatory neoliberal economic globalization. Hayden shows that a key constellation of her concepts—the right to have rights, superfluousness, thoughtlessness, plurality, freedom, and power—can help us to understand and address some of the central problems involving political evil in our global age. In doing so, this book takes Arendtian scholarship and international political theory into provocative new directions. Political Evil in a Global Age will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of politics, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies.
Out of Evil
Title | Out of Evil PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Chan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Good and evil |
ISBN |
After Evil
Title | After Evil PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Meister |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231150377 |
The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century humanitarianism, doesn't presuppose that evil ends when justice begins. Rather, it assumes that a time before justice is the moment to put evil in the past. Merging examples from literature and history, Robert Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the empty moral logic of "never again" or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence and counterviolence, broken only once evil is remembered for what it was. Meister criticizes such methods for their deferral of justice and susceptibility to exploitation and elaborates the flawed moral logic of "never again" in relation to Auschwitz and its evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect.
Appointing Evil in International Relations
Title | Appointing Evil in International Relations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
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Evil and International Relations
Title | Evil and International Relations PDF eBook |
Author | R. Jeffery |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2008-07-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781403977342 |
This book seeks to determine what is meant by 'evil' when used to describe actors and events in international politics. Focusing on the history of evil in western secular and religious thought, it reintroduces a classical understanding of evil as the means to which we seek to understand otherwise meaningless human suffering.