The Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Kristoffer Lidén
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Gray Zone ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
International Intervention ◽  
Liberal Peacebuilding

This chapter explores the normative underpinnings of the scholarly debate on liberal peacebuilding and situates them within international ethics. The debate is relevant for the ethics of global governance more broadly by addressing a theoretical gray zone between the ethics of international intervention and state sovereignty. The chapter argues that instead of rejecting the liberal internationalist objectives of peacebuilding, the critics tend to deny the coherence of liberal peacebuilding with these objectives. This is exemplified by relating the critique to the prevalent positions of John Rawls, Michael Walzer, and Simon Caney in international ethics. The critique challenges descriptive presuppositions of these positions by drawing on critical, poststructural, and postcolonial perspectives.

Catholicism and Cosmopolitanism: the Confluence of Three Catholic Scholars and the Cosmopolitan Democrats on State Sovereignty and the Future of Global Governance

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Matthew Bagot
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cosmopolitan Democracy ◽  
Catholic Tradition

One of the central questions in international relations today is how we should conceive of state sovereignty. The notion of sovereignty—’supreme authority within a territory’, as Daniel Philpott defines it—emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 as a result of which the late medieval crisis of pluralism was settled. But recent changes in the international order, such as technological advances that have spurred globalization and the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect, have cast the notion of sovereignty into an unclear light. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate regarding sovereignty by exploring two schools of thought on the matter: first, three Catholic scholars from the past century—Luigi Sturzo, Jacques Maritain, and John Courtney Murray, S.J.—taken as representative of Catholic tradition; second, a number of contemporary political theorists of cosmopolitan democracy. The paper argues that there is a confluence between the Catholic thinkers and the cosmopolitan democrats regarding their understanding of state sovereignty and that, taken together, the two schools have much to contribute not only to our current understanding of sovereignty, but also to the future of global governance.

Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Jütersonke ◽  
Kazushige Kobayashi ◽  
Keith Krause ◽  
Xinyu Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Global Norms ◽  
Normative Change ◽  
International Peacebuilding ◽  
Liberal Peacebuilding

Abstract Focusing on the disconnect between mainstream “liberal” peacebuilding and the discourses and practices of “new” and “alternative” peacebuilding actors, this article develops a nonbinary approach that goes beyond norm localization to capture the ways in which major powers influence the nature, content, and direction of normative change. Within the context of their bilateral and multilateral contributions to the “global peacebuilding order,” what forms and types of interventions are conceived by these actors as peacebuilding? How, in turn, has the substantive content of their peacebuilding practices (re)shaped norms and narratives in international peacebuilding efforts? Based on extensive empirical research of the peacebuilding policies and activities of China, Japan, and Russia, this article analyzes the way in which these “top-top” dynamics between norms embedded in the liberal narrative and major powers with competing visions can influence peacebuilding as practiced and pursued in host states. In doing so, it brings together research on global norms and peacebuilding studies and offers a simple yet analytically powerful tool to better understand the evolution of global peacebuilding order(s) and the role of rising powers in (re)shaping global governance.

The Morally Constitutive State

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Erskine
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Constitutive Theory ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
Law Of Peoples

This chapter discusses the idea of the morally constitutive state. It introduces the second point of theoretical opposition for embedded cosmopolitanism. This forms an approach to international ethics that was extracted from MacIntyre’s essay on patriotism; the approach is termed as communitarian realism. The chapter also addresses statist perspectives, namely the extended political liberalism, from which John Rawls champions his ‘Law of Peoples’, and the ‘constitutive theory of individuality’ of Mervyn Frost.

Legitimating Global Governance in a Post-National World

2019 ◽  
pp. 232-266
Author(s):  
Klaus Dingwerth
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
The Core ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
International Authority ◽  
Normative Change

The chapter summarizes and reflects upon the core findings of our study. Compared to the 1970s and 1980s, how have the norms and values that underpin the justification, appraisal, and critique of international organizations shifted in the post-1990 world? The chapter argues that legitimacy standards of the national constellation are increasingly complemented by the legitimacy standards of the ‘post-national constellation’. While the legitimacy standards of the national constellation emphasize state sovereignty, functional cooperation, and non-coerciveness, the legitimacy standards of the post-national constellation conceptualize individuals as rights holders and are guided by a cosmopolitan ideal of inclusive global governance. More specifically, the case studies reveal a rise of people-based legitimation norms and a rise of procedural legitimacy standards. As the study shows, the politicization of expanded international authority is one important source of normative change. Other sources include the rise of new legitimation constituencies and self-reinforcing dynamics of normative change.

Beyond Westphalia: State Sovereignty and International Intervention

1995 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Fukuyama ◽  
Gene M. Lyons ◽  
Michael Mastanduno
Keyword(s):  
State Sovereignty ◽  
International Intervention

4. The political dimension of globalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Manfred B. Steger
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Political Globalization

Political globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of political interrelations across the globe. ‘The political dimension of globalization’ raises political issues relating to state sovereignty and the question of whether the nation-state will survive globalization. Growing social, economic, and cultural interconnectedness has facilitated migration in large numbers and permeated borders. Contemporary globalization has put pressure on traditional forms of global governance by fostering the growth of supraterritorial social spaces and institutions that unsettle both familiar political arrangements and cultural traditions. The worldwide intensification of cultural interactions makes greater accommodation and tolerance possible, but it is just as likely to increase political resistance and opposition.

Humanitarian Intervention: Three Ethical Positions

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Laberge
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Right

The three ethical positions Laberge outlines are: (1) “Rawlsian ethics,” which are distinct from the ethics of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls himself; (2) the position of Michael Walzer adapted from J. S. Mill; and (3) the position most recently articulated by the Canadian philosopher Howard Adelman on the “Anglo-American” debate, which developed out of Walzer's position. These three positions, Laberge writes, are “an ethics of human rights, ethics of the right to a historical community, and an ethics of peace

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