Special Responsibilities

Global Problems and American Power

by: Mlada Bukovansky - Ian Clark - Robyn Eckersley - Richard Price - Christian Reus-Smit - Nicholas J. Wheeler

Special Responsibilities
Author: Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Richard Price, Christian Reus-Smit, Nicholas J. Wheeler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 17 May 2012

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ISBN: 1107021359 ISBN 13: 9781107021358

Special Responsibilities by Mlada Bukovansky - Ian Clark - Robyn Eckersley - Richard Price - Christian Reus-Smit - Nicholas J. Wheeler

This is the first study of how major global problems have been managed through the international distribution of special responsibilities. Top page

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The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique obligations in managing global problems. Surprisingly, scholars are yet to provide any in-depth analysis of this fascinating aspect of world politics. This path-breaking study examines the nature of special responsibilities, the complex politics that surround them and how they condition international social power. The argument is illustrated with detailed case-studies of nuclear proliferation, climate change and global finance. All three problems have been addressed by an allocation of special responsibilities, but while this has structured politics in these areas, it has also been the subject of ongoing contestation. With a focus on the United States, this book argues that power must be understood as a social phenomenon and that American power varies significantly across security, economic and environmental domains. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Cambridge University Press

City: Cambridge

Pages: 302

More info: height 228 mm width 152 mm weight 610 gr thickness 18 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 327 Library of Congress Subject: International relations - Moral and ethical aspects

Departments: International relations;

Record updated at: 21 May, 2013 time: 01:03

Summary Special Responsibilities Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Framework: 1. A practice in search of a theory; 2. Special responsibilities in world politics; Part II. Three Global Problems: 3. Nuclear proliferation; 4. Climate change; 5. Global finance; Part III. Ethical Dimensions: 6. The ethics of special responsibilities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. Top page

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