Global civil society and international ethics: Mervyn Frost's restatement of constitutive theory

Sutch, Peter David Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2898-5214 2000. Global civil society and international ethics: Mervyn Frost's restatement of constitutive theory. Review of International Studies 26 (3) , pp. 485-489.

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Abstract

Mervyn Frost's restatement of his constitutive theory of international relations raises a number of crucial points which need elaboration and discussion. Discussing the issues under the key headings used by Frost in his reply to my ‘Human Rights as Settled Norms’, I wish to focus on the following claim which I take to be central to the development of any norm-oriented approach to political and international theory. The claim is simply this; we are required, as a necessary component of post-positivist and constructivist theory, to take account of ethical and political inequalities in the development of any series of ‘settled norms’ that constitute the prevailing domain of discourse. This claim, I believe, accurately captures the core concerns of my earlier article and informs those tensions that remain to be discussed here.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory
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Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0260-2105
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	19 May 2023 18:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/9997

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