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New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse

New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse

Elshtain, Jean Bethke
Dallmayr, Fred
Merritt, Martha

Paperback

Series: From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Stud

PhilosophyBusiness GeneralGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0268014833
ISBN13: 9780268014834
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Apr 22 1998
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.55
Language: English

Jean Bethke Elshtain, the 1996 Hesburgh Lecturer on Ethics and Public Policy, challenges a powerful strand in western political thinking that separates the political and ethical realms. This is manifest above all in the claim that although the rule of justice might pertain between citizens, force is the ultimate arbiter between states and would-be states. But this claim fails to capture the many complex ways that political bodies deal with one another through norms and rules and not simply by force. Elshtain captures this alternative dimension by examining two dominant currents in international politics: sovereignty and nationalism. She shows the ways in which the historic understanding of sovereignty was deeply dependent on theological concepts, and demonstrates that much of contemporary life is marked by the mapping of concepts of sovereignty onto our understanding, not just of states but of persons.

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