268 research outputs found
Compassion in International Relations
No full textInternational Relations is often focused on the power relations between states and other actors. The mainstream of the discipline is positivist in its social scientific approach. Theorists in IR have payed little attention to the role of emotions in the realm of world affairs. In this article I examine the role of compassion in international politics
Global ethics:anarchy, freedom and international relations
No full textThis provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. International actors are always faced with the ethical question: So, what ought we to do in circumstances like these? Illustrating the centrality of ethics to our understanding of global politics and global civil society with detailed case studies, Frost shows how international actors constitute one another in global social practices that are underpinned by specific ethical commitments. Case Studies examined include: The War on Iraq. The 'Global War on Terror'. Iran. Human Rights. Globalization and Migration. The use of Private Military Companies. Global Ethics forces readers to confront their own necessary ethical engagement as citizens and rights holders in global society. Failure to understand international relations in ethical terms will lead to misguided action. This book should be read by all scholars and students of international relations as well as the general reader seeking an accessible account of the importance of ethical decisions in world affairs.</p
Human rights as settled norms: Mervyn Frost and the limits of Hegelian human rights theory
Full text linkThis article explores the normative international relations theory of Mervyn Frost. Frost's unorthodox approach to questions of human rights offers a way through the political and philosophical morass that has often threatened to obscure the most pressing issues of our time. Significantly, Frost claims to able to ‘construct’ a background justification for international ethics that can unite the demands for sovereign autonomy with declarations of human rights. In doing so Frost attempts to offer an new understanding of universal ethics and thus of the role of human rights in international politics. Acknowledging the importance of this approach, this article examines two issues that arise from Frost's ‘constitutive theory’ and seeks to offer a signpost for the future development of human rights theory
Human rights as settled norms: Mervyn Frost and the limits of Hegelian human rights theory
No full textThis article explores the normative international relations theory of Mervyn Frost.
Frost's unorthodox approach to questions of human rights offers a way through the political
and philosophical morass that has often threatened to obscure the most pressing issues of our
time. Significantly, Frost claims to able to ‘construct’ a background justification for
international ethics that can unite the demands for sovereign autonomy with declarations of
human rights. In doing so Frost attempts to offer an new understanding of universal ethics
and thus of the role of human rights in international politics. Acknowledging the importance
of this approach, this article examines two issues that arise from Frost's ‘constitutive theory’
and seeks to offer a signpost for the future development of human rights theory.</jats:p
Practice Theory and International Relations
No full textAre social practices actions, or institutional frameworks of interaction structured by common rules? How do social practices such as signing a cheque differ from international practices such as signing a peace treaty? Traversing the fields of international relations (IR) and philosophy, this book defends an institutionalist conception of practices as part of a general practice theory indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel. The proposed practice theory has two core aspects: practice internalism and normative descriptivism. In developing a philosophical analysis of social practices that has a special relevance for international relations, Silviya Lechner and Mervyn Frost depart from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of practice that dominates the current 'practice turn' in IR. The authors show that the contemporary global realm is constituted by two distinct macro practices - the practice of sovereign states and that of global rights
Correspondence between Mervyn M. Dymally and Vernon Jordan, December 1967
No full textCorrespondence between Mervyn M. Dymally about Vernon Jordan increasing voter awareness in Los Angeles. Enclosed is a grant proposal from the Urban Affairs Foundation
Making Sense of Norms and Ethics in a Decentralised System, Review Essay of Mervyn Frost, Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom, and International Relations (London and NY: Routledge, 2009); Thomas Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Cambridge)
No full textArtículos en revistasReseña de Mervyn Frost, Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom, and International Relations (London and NY: Routledge, 2009); Thomas Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007) and Benjamin N. Schiff, Building the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Estos libros tratan desde perspectivas diferentes de la relación entre normas internacionales e sistema internacional anarquico y basado en los intereses nacionales.Book review of Mervyn Frost, Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom, and International Relations (London and NY: Routledge, 2009); Thomas Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007) and Benjamin N. Schiff, Building the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). These books explore from different perspectives the relationship between international norms and anarchical international system based on national interests.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Aspects of stuckness in Mervyn Peakes's fiction / Alice Mills
Full text link"This thesis argues that stuckness is a central trope in all of Mervyn Peake's extended works of fiction and that most of Peake's characters become stuck at critical points in their lives."Doctor of Philosoph
Ormond: or the secret witness. By the author of Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, &c. &c.
No full text[2],338,[2]p. ; 12⁰.The author of Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, &c. &c. = Charles Brockden Brown.Dedication signed: S. C.With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf.Reproduction of original from the British Library.Blakey, p.196English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT131855.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
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