Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention

Neta C. Crawford

ISBN 10: 0521002796 / ISBN 13: 9780521002790

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 2002

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466 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521002796
• ISBN 13: 9780521002790
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.76 kilograms

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Synopsis

Arguments have consequences in world politics that are as real as the military forces of states or the balance of power among them. Neta Crawford reveals how ethical arguments, not power politics or economics, explain decolonization, the greatest change in world politics to occur over the last five hundred years. The book also analyzes how argument might be used to to remake contemporary world politics, suggesting how such arguments apply to the issue of humanitarian intervention.

About the Author

Neta Crawford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the co-editor (with Audie Klotz) of How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa (1999), and author of Soviet Military Aircraft (1987), and a number of articles in leading journals.