Normative Theory in International Relations

An account of the development of normative theory in international relations over the past two decades.

Introduction; Part I. Evaluating the Impasse: 1. Cosmopolitanism: Rawlsian approaches to international distributive justice; 2. Communitarianism: Michael Walzer and international justice; 3. Beyond the impasse? Hegelian method in the cosmopolitanism of Andrew Linklater and the communitarianism of Mervyn Frost; Part II. Confronting the Impasse: 4. Poststructuralist antifoundationalism, ethics, and normative IR theory; 5. Neo-pragmatist antifoundationalism, ethics, and normative IR theory; Part III. International Ethics as Pragmatic Critique: 6. International ethics as pragmatic critique: a pragmatic synthesis of the work of John Dewey and Richard Rorty; 7. Facilitating moral inclusion: feminism and pragmatic critique; 8. From moral imagination to international public spheres: the political and institutional implications of pragmatic critique; Conclusion.