Evaluating Global Orders

Klappentext This volume examines conceptualisations of the field of 'global order' and the way in which this is imagined and evaluated. Zusammenfassung This volume examines the way in which 'the global order' is imagined and evaluated! as well as the manner in which this evaluation takes place. These studies offer interesting and provocative 'evaluations' ranging from reflection on particular aspects of the contemporary global order to ideas of a very different world order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: evaluating global orders Nicholas Rengger; 1. How UN ideas change history Thomas G. Weiss; 2. From experience to thought: a reply to Louise Arbour William Bain; 3. A responsibility to reality: a reply to Louise Arbour Stephanie Carvin; 4. The responsibility to protect ¿ much ado about nothing? Theresa Reinold; 5. Dangerous duties: power, paternalism and the 'responsibility to protect' Philip Cunliffe; 6. Global justice, national responsibility and transnational power David Owen; 7. Non-state authority and global governance Dimitrios Katsikas; 8. The uncritical critique of 'liberal peace' David Chandler; 9. What is a (global) polity? Olaf Corry; 10. Cosmological sources of critical cosmopolitanism Heikki Patomäki; 11. Ancient cynicism: a case for salvage Piers Revell; 12. Journeys beyond the West: world orders and a 7th-century, Buddhist monk Lily Ling.

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• Authors: Nicholas Rengger, Nicholas (University of St Andrews Rengger, Nicholas John Rengger
• Assisted by: Nicholas Rengger (Editor), Nicholas (University of St Andrews Rengger (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2011
• EAN: 9781107602366
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60236-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: International Affairs; International Affairs
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education