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Political Theory and International Relations: Revised Edition

By Charles R. Beitz

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9781400822928
DOI
10.1515/9781400822928
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21669584 bytes)
Pages
264\257
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-25 15:54:11

Description

In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in domestic society in having rights of autonomy that insulate them from external moral assessment and political interference. Beitz postulates that a theory of international politics should include a revised principle of state autonomy based on the justice of a state's domestic institutions, and a principle of international distributive justice to establish a fair division of resources and wealth among persons situated in diverse national societies.

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