This interesting, varied scientific book will be useful for people interested in approaches, analyses and alternative, innovative proposals for tackling issues of international politics and global governance in the twenty-first century.

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There is always a normative perspective in analyses of human affairs, sometimes explicit but often hidden under a claim to value-free research. This book is a dialogue among scholars who, in the spirit of Richard Falk, aim to further social justice, ecological balance, and recogniton of cultural diversity. They recognize that such goals can only be pursued effectively through a realistic analysis of the limits of the possible.

- Robert W. Cox, York University,

Principled World Politics takes stock of contemporary normative international relations and aims to chart the future course of the discipline. The volume brings together the most innovative minds currently working in the field and presents their ideas of how to create a more humane world order. Renowned scholars from around the world explain how to advance the prospects of world peace, economic well-being, social justice, and humane governance. They further examine the changing character of normative theory and how it can more effectively engage contemporary world affairs. As normative IR enjoys a resurgence of interest, this unique and timely volume is the first to systematically organize and present contemporary scholarship and to set out a coherent agenda for the next century.

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This text takes stock of contemporary normative international relations and aims to chart the future course of the discipline. It brings together experts working in the field and presents their ideas of how to create a more humane world order.

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Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Resurgence and Metamorphosis of Normative International Relations: Principled Commitment and Scholarship in a New Millennium
Part 3 Critical Perspectives on International Relations
Chapter 4 Both Globalization and Sovereignty: Re-Imagining the Political
Chapter 5 Normative and Complexity Theories: Complementary Approaches to World Affairs
Chapter 6 Theory and Political Practice: Reflections on Theory Building in International Relations
Chapter 7 The Uncertain Reach of Critical Theory
Part 8 Social Justice
Chapter 9 Global Economic Inequalities: A Growing Moral Gap
Chapter 10 Social Justice: Growing Consciousness, Receding Prospects
Chapter 11 Collective Identity, Social Movements, and the Limits of Political Dissent in Israel
Chapter 12 Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization
Part 13 Economic Well-Being
Chapter 14 Markets, Private Property, and the Possibility of Democracy
Chapter 15 Reconceptualizing Global Poverty: Globalization, Marginalization, and Gender
Chapter 16 The Asian Financial Crisis: Heroes, Villians, and Accomplices
Chapter 17 Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives to Counter Corporate-Led Globalization
Part 18 Peace
Chapter 19 Enforcing Norms and Normalizing Enforcement for Humane Governance
Chapter 20 The Underside of Peace: Reflections on Aum Shinrikyo
Chapter 21 An Axial Age? Imagining Peace for the New Millennium
Chapter 22 From a Twentieth Century of War to a Twenty-First Century of Peace?
Part 23 Humane Governance
Chapter 24 The Normative Promise of Nonstate Actors: A Theoretical Account of Global Civil Society
Chapter 25 Technological Underdevelopment in the South: The Continuing Cold War
Chapter 26 Governance, Legitimacy, and Security: Three Scenarios for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 27 The Age of Relativization: Toward a Twenty-First Century of Active Civil Society
Part 28 Conclusion
Chapter 29 The Emergence of WOMP in the Normative Tradition: Biography and Theory
Chapter 30 Culture, Politics, and the Sense of the Ethical: Challenges for Normative International Relations
Part 31 Bibliography
Part 32 Index
Part 33 About the Contributors