Table of Contents

1. Argument, belief and culture; 2. Ethical argument and argument analysis; 3. Colonial arguments; 4. Decolonizing bodies: ending slavery and denormalizing forced labour; 5. Faces of humanitarianism, rivers of blood; 6. Sacred trust; 7. Self-determination; 8. Alternative explanations, counterfactuals and causation; 9. Poesis and praxis: toward ethical world politics.

Promotional Information

This book shows how ethical arguments, not power politics or economics, explain fundamental changes in world politics.

About the Author

Neta Crawford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the co-editor (with Audie Klotz) of How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa (1999), and author of Soviet Military Aircraft (1987), and a number of articles in leading journals.

Reviews

'… exceptionally rich, an impressive synthesis of numerous theoretical approaches and a compelling historical narrative.' International Affairs