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Mervyn Frost

Bio: Mervyn Frost is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: International relations & Civil society. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 51 publications receiving 741 citations. Previous affiliations of Mervyn Frost include University of Queensland & Department of War Studies, King's College London.


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29 Mar 1996
TL;DR: In this article, Mervyn Frost argues that most questions commonly asked about international politics are ethical ones and examines the reasons given for this, and finds that they do not stand up to scrutiny.
Abstract: Most questions commonly asked about international politics are ethical ones. Should the international community intervene in Bosnia? What do we owe the starving in Somalia? What should be done about the genocide in Rwanda? Yet, Mervyn Frost argues, ethics is accorded a marginal position within the academic study of international relations. In this book he examines the reasons given for this, and finds that they do not stand up to scrutiny. He goes on to evaluate those ethical theories which do exist within the discipline - order based theories, utilitarian theories, and rights based theories - and finds them unconvincing. He elaborates his own ethical theory, constitutive theory, which is derived from Hegel, and highlights the way in which we constitute one another as moral beings through a process of reciprocal recognition within a hierarchy of institutions which include the family, civil society, the state, and the society of states.

166 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the notion of tragedy is considered in normative IR theory and the question about the pertinence of tragedy for those concerned with ethics in international relations is explored. But it is not only the narrow charge against constitutive theory, but also the wider question of tragedy that concerns the broader question of international ethics.
Abstract: Is the notion of tragedy one that students of international ethics ought to take seriously? I pose the question against the following background: Some time ago James Mayall, now Emeritus Professor of International Relations (IR) at Cambridge University, challenged my general approach to international ethics as being too progressive, optimistic and teleological. He claimed that constitutive theory, a position within normative IR theory on which I have been working for some years now, failed to take account of the tragic dimensions of international relations and that this was a weakness of the theory. I took him to be making a point about normative IR theory more generally. In this chapter I wish to evaluate these charges. What I wish to explore in this chapter is not merely the narrow charge against constitutive theory, but the wider question about the pertinence of tragedy for those concerned with ethics in international relations.

74 citations

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10 Jan 2014
TL;DR: Whitebrook and Noyes as discussed by the authors discuss the effect of guilt and anger on compassionate helping and the Lure of Suffering in the context of international relations, and the role and limits of Compassion in international relations.
Abstract: 1. Theorising Political Compassion Maureen Whitebrook 2. Compassion and the Problem of Invisibility in Arendt's Public Space Gudrun von Tevenar 3. Compassion as Risk Lola Frost 4. Towards a Sociology of Compassion in World Affairs Andrew Linklater 5. Motivating Support for Cosmopolitan Political Institutions: The Role and Limits of Compassion Terry Macdonald 6. Compassion in the Practices of International Relations Mervyn Frost 7. The effect of guilt and anger on compassionate helping Nicholas Faulkner 8. The New Social Politics of Pity Iain Wilkinson 9. Compassion and the Lure of Suffering Joanne Faulkner 10. Unconditional Compassion: Wounded Subjects and the Politics of Rescue Paul Muldoon 11. Pity, Compassion, and Forgiveness: The Moral Terrain David Konstan 12. Compassion and Terror Martha Nussbaum 13. The Sublime Threshold: Compassion, Scale, and Attention in the Theater of Clemency Dorothy Noyes

49 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a course on International Ethics is presented, which provides students with the necessary tools to think critically about theories and issues related to international ethics, including the ethics of war, poverty, "sweatshops" and humanitarian intervention.
Abstract: How should we think about moral problems in global politics? What does it mean to think, and act, ethically in the world? What role do ‘ethics’ play in international relations? What is the relationship between ethics, politics and power? The aim of this course is to provide students with the necessary tools to think critically about theories and issues related to international ethics. International ethics is a rapidly expanding field within the discipline of International Relations; this growth has been driven partly by developments in related fields of moral and political philosophy, as well as by the evident moral urgency of many contemporary global problems – including questions of poverty and inequality, and the ethics of war and conflict. This course will begin by looking at competing theoretical perspectives on international ethics. We will then go on to examine issues and problems in international ethics, including the ethics of war, poverty, ‘sweatshops’, humanitarianism and humanitarian intervention. By the end of the course you should have a strong grasp of dominant and critical theoretical approaches to international ethics; you should also be able to use these approaches to make sense of the way ethical arguments work in international politics.

43 citations

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TL;DR: In a recent flurry of studies on international practices, international relations scholars have drawn on diverse traditions in sociol... as discussed by the authors, in response to a recent literature survey of international practices.
Abstract: The article is written in response to a recent flurry of studies on international practices. In investigating this theme, International Relations scholars have drawn on diverse traditions in sociol...

41 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU's international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the European Union as a "normative power Europe".
Abstract: Twenty years ago, in the pages of the, Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community's "civilian power" in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to a seductiveness in adopting the notion of "military power Europe". In contrast, I will attempt to argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU's international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the EU as a "normative power Europe".

2,431 citations

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TL;DR: The second edition of the Second Edition as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about philosophy and social sciences with a focus on the nature of meaningful behaviour and its relationship to the social sciences.
Abstract: Preface to the Second Edition Part 1: Philosophical Bearings 1. Aims and Strategy 2. The Underlabourer Conception of Philosophy 3. Philosophy and Science 4. The Philosopher's Concern with Language 5. Conceptual and Empirical Enquiries 6. The Pivotal Role of Epistemology in Philosophy 7. Epistemology and the Understanding of Society 8. Rules: Wittgenstein's Analysis 9. Some Misunderstandings of Wittgenstein Part 2: The Nature of Meaningful Behaviour 1. Philosophy and Sociology 2. Meaningful Behaviour 3. Activities and Precepts 4. Rules and Habits 5. Reflectiveness Part 3: The Social Studies as Science 1. J.S. Mill's 'Logic of the Moral Sciences' 2. Differences in Degree and Differences in Kind 3. Motives and Causes 4. Motives, Dispositions and Reasons 5. The Investigation of Regularities 6. Understanding Social Institutions 7. Prediction in the Social Studies Part 4: The Mind and Society 1. Pareto: Logical and Non-Logical Conduct 2. Pareto: Residues and Derivations 3. Max Weber: Verstehen and Causal Explanation 4. Max Weber: Meaningful Action and Social Action Part 5: Concepts and Actions 1. The Internality of Social Relations 2. Discursive and Non-Discursive 'Ideas' 3. The Social Sciences and History 4. Concluding Remark

1,329 citations