Moral Order/World Order
Moral Order/World Order

Author: H. Dyer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-06-16

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0230376622

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Moral Order/World Order argues for the centrality of normative theory in the study of international relations. Two themes develop, each reflecting opposing pairs: fact/value, is/ought, description/prescription, feasibility/desirability. The first theme concerns the epistemological framework provided by a normative account. The second theme concerns the political conditions of knowledge which determine the role of different theories, indicating the need for adaptation of traditional normative scholarship, overcoming the separation of ethics from politics which has so far limited its role.

Normative Theory in International Relations
Normative Theory in International Relations

Author: Molly Cochran

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-12-09

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521639651

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Molly Cochran offers an account of the development of normative theory in international relations over the past two decades. In particular, she analyzes the tensions between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to international ethics, paying attention to differences in their treatments of a concept of the person, the moral standing of states and the scope of moral arguments. The book draws connections between this debate and the tension between foundationalist and antifoundationalist thinking and offers an argument for a pragmatic approach to international ethics.

Normative Theory in International Relations
Normative Theory in International Relations

Author: Molly Cochran

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13:

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Molly Cochran offers an account of the development of normative theory in international relations over the past two decades. In particular, she analyses the tensions between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to international ethics and offers an argument for a pragmatist approach.

Practice Theory and International Relations
Practice Theory and International Relations

Author: Silviya Lechner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-09-30

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108586457

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Are social practices actions, or institutional frameworks of interaction structured by common rules? How do social practices such as signing a cheque differ from international practices such as signing a peace treaty? Traversing the fields of international relations (IR) and philosophy, this book defends an institutionalist conception of practices as part of a general practice theory indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel. The proposed practice theory has two core aspects: practice internalism and normative descriptivism. In developing a philosophical analysis of social practices that has a special relevance for international relations, Silviya Lechner and Mervyn Frost depart from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of practice that dominates the current 'practice turn' in IR. The authors show that the contemporary global realm is constituted by two distinct macro practices - the practice of sovereign states and that of global rights.