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Tragedy, Reconciliation and Reconstruction
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This paper explored the uses of tragedy as a mode of analysis in international relations, where actors are portrayed as acting ethically, but through their deeds they bring about consequences that are contrary to the values in the name of which the deeds were undertaken.Abstract:
This article explores the uses of tragedy as a mode of analysis in international relations. In tragic analyses, actors are portrayed as acting ethically, but through their deeds they bring about consequences that are contrary to the values in the name of which the deeds were undertaken. The good deeds bring about ethically obnoxious consequences. The article demonstrates how tragic analyses can be made of the actions of collective actors such as states and nations. Examples from Rhodesia, South Africa and the Balkans are used to demonstrate this. Tragic stories elicit sympathy for the protagonists. Such accounts are compared with rival accounts of the same acts, in terms of `just war theory', for example, which accounts do not generate sympathy but call forth emotions of outrage and condemnation. Finally, a case is made for the use of the tragic form of analysis in international affairs. Such analyses highlight the tensions and contradictions between rival social practices and point the way towards politi...read more
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The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders
TL;DR: In this article, the catalogues of book to open are presented, and the tragic vision of politics ethics interests and orders is one of the literary work in this world in suitable to be reading material.
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The challenges in developing cross-national social work curricula
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on one such collaboration involving four Australian and four European schools of social work which struggled to develop elements of curriculum that could be used by all partners, and identifies issues that international collaborations need to take account of in the planning and implementing of shared curriculum.
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Post-conflict societies and the social sciences: a review
TL;DR: This article reviewed the growing literature on post-conflict societies in the social sciences and outlined the opportunity postconflict society provides the Social Sciences to demonstrate their "impact" and "public value" as well as the challenges the field throws out to social sciences, in particular to their moral relativism and the traditional disciplinary closure from moral questions.
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Tragedy, genealogy and theories of International Relations:
TL;DR: The role of tragedy in the work of International Relations theorists including Michael Dillon, Mervyn Frost, Richard Ned Lebow and Hans Morgenthau has been examined in this article, where a genealogical consideration of tragedy enables an alertness to its political associations and implications.
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening.
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
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Hegel's ethics of recognition
TL;DR: In this article, Williams developed the most comprehensive account to date of Hegel's concept of recognition (Anerkennung) and showed how the concept shapes and illumines Hegel's understandings of crime and punishment, morality, the family, the state, sovereignty, international relations, and war.
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The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders
TL;DR: In this article, Lebow argues that, unlike many modern realists, classic realists saw close links between domestic and international politics, and between interests and ethics, and used this analysis to offer a powerful critique of post-Cold War American foreign policy.