Is There a Philosophy of Statesmanship?

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Martin Wight
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Politics ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
General Will ◽  
The Rule Of Law

This essay assumes that readers will be familiar with Wight’s analysis distinguishing three traditions of thinking about international politics and will therefore recognize ‘three types’. The ‘three groups’, Wight observes, consist of (1) ‘idealists’ and ‘revolutionaries’ and ‘Utopians’ committed to serving the ‘general will’ and ‘the cause’; (2) ‘moralists’ and ‘Grotians’ dedicated to upholding treaties and the rule of law; and (3) ‘realists’ and ‘Machiavellians’ concerned with calculating how to defend and advance ‘the national interest’. With regard to survival imperatives, however, Wight holds that ‘all statesmen are realists’. He also qualifies this exposition of three traditions of thinking about international relations by pointing out that some Grotians and moralists have championed ‘a different Utopia’, an ideal distinct from the revolutionary uniformity sought by certain religions and ideologies. This different Utopia was the League of Nations, an institution designed to bring about a peaceful universal legal order. The League’s advocates expected a majority of nations, backed by world public opinion, to maintain peace and order through rational appeals and, if necessary, economic sanctions, with war as a final recourse to restore international amity.

Sir Alfred Zimmern revisited: fifty years on

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Markwell
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Politics ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Academic Study

The publication in 1936 of Sir Alfred Zimmern's The League of Nations and the Rule of Law is now, fifty years on, little mentioned. It was ‘perhaps…the most polished work of the “idealist” writers’ who dominated the academic study of international politics in Britain and America for most of the inter-war years;1 and Zimmern (then Montague Burton Professor of International Relations in Oxford) was ‘the most influential representative of our field’ in that period.

Democratic Commitments: Legislatures and International Cooperation. By Lisa L. Martin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 225p. $49.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
Kathleen R. McNamara
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Politics ◽  
International System ◽  
Political Life ◽  
International Level ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Independent Effects

One of the sharpest and most consequential divisions in international relations lies between those who believe that international politics is a realm unto its own and those who see the lines between domestic and international politics as both permeable and pertinent. For the former group, the consequences of anarchy swamp any potential for politics to be ordered at the international level as it is within states. In this view, the dynamics of domestic political life, such as the rule of law, norms of trust, or the independent effects of institutions, are foreign to the international system.

International ethics and international law

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Nardin
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Ethical Significance

In this paper I am going to argue a familiar but still controversial thesis about the relation between international ethics and international law, which I would sum up in the following list of propositions:First, international law is a source as well as an object of ethical judgements. The idea of legality or the rule of law is an ethical one, and international law has ethical significance because it gives institutional expression to the rule of law in international relations.Secondly, international law—or, more precisely, the idea of the rule of law in international relations—reflects a rule-oriented rather than outcome-oriented ethic of international affairs. By insisting on the priority of rules over outcomes, this ethic rejects consequentialism in all its forms.

scholarly journals The Challenge of the Bad Man

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Plaxton
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Douglas Husak

H.L.A. Hart’s insight, that some people may be guided by an offence provision because they take it as authoritative and not merely to avoid sanctions, has had an enormous influence upon criminal law theory. Hart, however, did not claim that any person in any actual legal order in fact thinks like the “puzzled man”, and there is lingering doubt as to the extent to which we should place him at the center of our analysis as we try to make sense of moral problems in the criminal law. Instead, we might find that our understanding of at least some issues in criminal law theory is advanced when we look through the eyes of Holmes’ “bad man”. This becomes clear when we consider the respective works by Hart and Douglas Husak on overcriminalization, James Chalmers and Fiona Leverick’s recent discussion of fair labeling, and Meir Dan-Cohen’s classic analysis of acoustic separation. These works also suggest, in different ways, that an emphasis on the bad man can expose the role of discretion in criminal justice systems, and the rule of law problems it generates.

The League of Nations and the Rule of Law, 1918-1935

1937 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 727
Author(s):  
Arnold Wolfers ◽  
Alfred Zimmern
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The Rule Of Law

Appointment With Destiny

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Mihajlo Mihajlov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Independent Path ◽  
Political Persuasion

Apart from Mukovan Djilas, Mihajlo Mihajlov is considered as the most famous dissident in the Balkans--a former prisoner-of-conscience in Tito's Yugoslavia. This brief but comprehensive, autobiographical retrospective recounts some major hilights in Mihajlov's odyssey ushered in by his intellectual travelogue, Moscow Sunmer 1964, first published in full in The New Leader. Mihajlov became an embarrassment not only to Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet leaders, but also to those in die West who landed Tito's "independent path to socialism." Yet others correctly perceived Mihajlov's quest for freedom of thought, speech, press, association, religious, philosophical and political persuasion as a classic benchmark of basic human rights and freedoms characterizing open, pluralistic, democratic polities. Indeed, the Westem press contributed to the pressure of world public opinion, which helped free Mihajlov, and, as he claims, even kept him alive. In a region divided by inter-ethnic conflict and civil war, Mihajlov's struggle for the rule of law and human dignity epitomizes hopes for a better future.

The General doctrine of the legal order. The rise of law and order

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Николай Черногор ◽  
Nikolay Chernogor ◽  
Дмитрий Пашенцев ◽  
Dmitriy Pashentsev ◽  
Максим Залоило ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
New Type ◽  
Normative Foundations

The monograph opens a series of studies, which set out the General doctrine of the rule of law. The first book is devoted to the Genesis of the legal order, its foundations and properties. The rule of law is regarded as a civilizational phenomenon and its evolution is characterized in the context of a combination of different principles and interests, social integration and differentiation, legality and justice, sustainability and its weakening. The socio-economic, intellectual-volitional, subject-institutional, normative foundations of law and order are revealed, its new typology is proposed, a detailed analysis of the archaic, traditional and modern law and order is given, the preconditions are shown and the forecast of its new type formation is presented. For researchers, legal practitioners, employees of state and municipal authorities, teachers, graduate students.

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