Decency and the Liberal International (Dis)Order: Moral Limits and the Possibilities of a Global Pluralist Politics
| Autor: | Steven C. Roach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Impartiality Management Monitoring Policy and Law 050601 international relations 0506 political science Ethos Politics Dignity Liberalism Law 050602 political science & public administration Neutrality Sociology Enforcement General Economics Econometrics and Finance Cultural pluralism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Globalizations. 14:1029-1044 |
| ISSN: | 1474-774X 1474-7731 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14747731.2017.1346050 |
| Popis: | This article analyzes the tension between the liberal ideals of freedom and equality and cultural difference. It argues that decency has become intertwined with the fragility of the liberal international order by providing a problematic threshold of international justice. The idea is that as global pressures mount for protecting the human dignity of persons/peoples, they also congeal or harden decency’s political and social constraints (impartiality, neutrality, and basic rights enforcement) on engaging others. Decency as a moral threshold of international justice, the article claims, has become static or a self-reinforcing limitation. This contradictory decency/dignity dynamic of the liberal international order not only explains how states have aggressively asserted their interests by absorbing these constraints, but also how politics can limit the pragmatic potential to bridge the various social gaps in values and belief systems. This article seeks to conceptualize a pluralist ethos that shows h... |
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