Palgrave Studies in International Relations

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1 Palgrave Studies in International Relations General Editors: Knud Erik Jørgensen, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark; Audie Klotz, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA Palgrave Studies in International Relations, produced in association with the ECPR Standing Group for International Relations, will provide students and scholars with the best theoretically informed scholarship on the global issues of our time. Edited by Knud Erik Jørgensen and Audie Klotz, this new book series will comprise cutting-edge monographs and edited collections which bridge schools of thought and cross the boundaries of conventional fields of study. Titles include: Pami Aalto, Vilho Harle and Sami Moisio (editors) INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Interdisciplinary Approaches Mathias Albert, Lars-Erik Cederman and Alexander Wendt (editors) NEW SYSTEMS THEORIES OF WORLD POLITICS Robert Ayson HEDLEY BULL AND THE ACCOMODATION OF POWER Gideon Baker (editor) HOSPITALITY AND WORLD POLITICS Barry Buzan and Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez (editors) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE MIDDLE EAST English School Theory at the Regional Level Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow (editors) TRAGEDY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Rebekka Friedman, Kevork Oskanian and Ramon Pachedo Pardo (editors) AFTER LIBERALISM? The Future of Liberalism in International Relations Geir Hønneland BORDERLAND RUSSIANS Identity, Narrative and International Relations Beate Jahn LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM Theory, History, Practice Oliver Kessler, Rodney Bruce Hall, Cecelia Lynch and Nicholas G. Onuf (editors) ON RULES, POLITICS AND KNOWLEDGE Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs Pierre P. Lizee A WHOLE NEW WORLD Reinventing International Studies for the Post-Western World

2 Hans Morgenthau, Hartmut Behr and Felix Rösch THE CONCEPT OF THE POLITICAL Max M. Mutschler ARMS CONTROL IN SPACE Exploring Conditions for Preventive Arms Control Cornelia Navari (editor) ETHICAL REASONING IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Arguments from the Middle Ground Cornelia Navari (editor) THEORISING INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY English School Methods Dirk Peters CONSTRAINED BALANCING: THE EU S SECURITY POLICY Linda Quayle SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE ENGLISH SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A Region-Theory Dialogue Simon F. Reich GLOBAL NORMS, AMERICAN SPONSORSHIP AND THE EMERGING PATTERNS OF WORLD POLITICS Robbie Shilliam GERMAN THOUGHT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project Daniela Tepe THE MYTH ABOUT GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY Domestic Politics to Ban Landmines Daniel C. Thomas (editor) MAKING EU FOREIGN POLICY National Preferences, European Norms and Common Policies Rens van Munster SECURITIZING IMMIGRATION The Politics of Risk in the EU Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series Standing Order ISBN (hardback) (paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England

3 Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs Arguments from the Middle Ground Edited by Cornelia Navari Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK

4 Editorial matter, introduction and selection Cornelia Navari 2013 Individual chapters Respective authors 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

5 Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors vii viii 1 The Terrain of the Middle Ground 1 Cornelia Navari 2 Are We Linguistically Left-Handed? In Search of Responsible, Ethical Subjects 21 Daniel Warner 3 Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice 43 Terry Nardin 4 Middle-Ground Ethics and Human Rights in International Relations 64 Mervyn Frost 5 Theorizing Secession: What Should Be the Relationship between the Ideal and the Empirical? 81 Mikulas Fabry 6 Global Constitutionalism as a Middle-Ground Ethic 106 Anthony Lang Jr. 7 Beyond Order versus Justice: Middle-Ground Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect 127 Mikael Baaz 8 Hedley Bull and John Dewey: Two Middle Grounders and a Pragmatic Approach to the Nuclear Dilemma 158 Molly Cochran 9 The Ethics of War, Innocence, and Hard Cases: A Call for the Middle Ground 182 Milla Emilia Vaha v

6 vi Contents 10 Authoritarianism, Anti-imperialism, and Intervention: The Precariousness of the Middle Ground 203 Chris Brown 11 Power Transitions, Emerging Powers, and the Shifting Terrain of the Middle Ground 222 Andrew Hurrell Index 246

7 Figures 7.1 A brief sketch for legal argumentation according to the method of social welfare. The typical point of departure for legal reasoning is a legal norm. If the argumentation instead is political or moral, the typical point of departure is values (or possibly facts) 145 vii

8 Contributors Mikael Baaz is Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and author of The Return of Barbarism? International Studies Review (2010), Human Rights or Human Wrongs? Towards a Thin Universal Code of Human Rights for the Twenty-first Century, Juridisk Tidskrift [Journal of Law] ( ), and Metatheoretical Foundations for the Study of International Relations, Journal of International Relations and Development (1999). Chris Brown is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK, and is the author of Practical Judgement in International Political Theory (2010), Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (2002), and International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches (1992). Molly Cochran is Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and author of Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach (1999) and editor of Cambridge Companion to Dewey (2010). Mikulas Fabry is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, US, and author of Recognizing States: International Society and the Establishment of New States since 1776 (2010) and The Right to Democracy in International Law: A Classical Liberal Reassessment, Millennium: Journal of International Studies (May 2009). Mervyn Frost is Professor and Head of the Department of War Studies at King s College, London, and author of Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (1986), Ethics in International Relations (1996), Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States (2002), and Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations (2009). Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, UK. His book, On Global Order: Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society, was the winner of International Studies Association Prize for Best Book in the field of International viii

9 Notes on Contributors ix Relations in Other publications include Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999, with Ngaire Woods) and Regionalism in World Politics (1995, with Louise Fawcett). Anthony Lang Jr. is Professor of International Political Theory in the School of International Relations at St. Andrews University, UK, where he directs the Centre for Global Constitutionalism. He is the author of Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (2002) and Punishment, Justice and International Relations: Ethics and Order after the Cold War (2008). Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (1983) and The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (2001) and co-editor of Traditions of International Ethics (1992). More recent work includes contributions to The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (2008), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political philosophy (2011), Theories of International Relations, 5th edition (2013), and other works. Cornelia Navari is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK. She is the author of Internationalism and the State in the 20th Century (2000) and Public Intellectuals and International Affairs (2012) and the editor of Theorising International Society (2013). Milla Emilia Vaha is a research student at the European University Institute, Italy, and Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of Child Soldiers and Killing in Self-Defence, Journal of Military Ethics (2011). She has recently received postdoctoral research funding for a book project on Ethical Reasoning and Just War Theory. Daniel Warner is Founder and former Executive Director of the Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is the author of An Ethic of Responsibility in International Relations (1991), co-editor of Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits (2001 and 2013), and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics.