Emerging Conflicts of Principle: International Relations and the Clash between Cosmopolitanism and Republicanism (Ethics and Global Politics)

Thomas M. Kane identifies and analyzes some of the major conflicts of principle which characterize world politics today. These include debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community. According to the author, debates such as these are being drawn towards increasingly polarized positions represented by strongly universalist and particularist moral and political ideologies, such as cosmopolitanism and republicanism. As such, this study suggests that the potential for ideologically-driven conflict will constitute the greatest challenge facing scholars and policymakers in the twenty-first century.

Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today. According to the author, debates such as these are being drawn towards increasingly polarized positions represented by strongly universalist and particularist moral and political ideologies, such as cosmopolitanism and republicanism. Kane analyzes each of these areas, identifying that the potential for ideologically-driven conflict will constitute the greatest challenge facing scholars and policy makers in the twenty-first century.

Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 1 The Return of Principle......Page 10 2 The Stillborn Consensus......Page 28 3 Republic or Cosmopolis?......Page 52 4 The Sincerity of the Cosmopolitans......Page 82 5 Opposing Camps......Page 120 6 Once and Future Battlefields......Page 142 7 Conclusion......Page 170 Bibliography......Page 172 H......Page 190 R......Page 191 Z......Page 192 Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified and analyzed by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today