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The Vulnerable in International Society (Paperback, New)
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The Vulnerable in International Society (Paperback, New)
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Who are the vulnerable, and what makes them so? Through an
innovative application of English School theory, this book suggests
that people are vulnerable not only to natural risks, but also to
the workings of international society. This replicates the approach
of those studies of natural disasters that now commonly present a
social vulnerability analysis, showing how people are
differentially exposed by their social location. Could
international society have similar effects? This question is
explored through the cases of political violence, climate change,
human movement, and global health. These cases provide rich detail
on how, through its social practices of the vulnerable,
international society constructs the vulnerable in its own terms,
and sets up regimes of protection that prioritize some forms at the
expense of others. What this demonstrates above all is that, even
if only a 'practical' association, international society inevitably
has moral consequences in the way it influences the relative
distribution of harm. As a result, these four pressing policy
issues now present themselves as fundamentally moral problems.
Revising the arguments of E. H. Carr, the author points out the
essentially contested normative nature of international order.
However, instead of as a moral clash between revisionist and status
quo powers, as Carr had suggested, the problem is instead one about
the contested nature of vulnerability, insofar as vulnerability is
an expression of power relations, but also gives rise to a moral
claim. By providing a holistic treatment in this way, the book
makes practical sense of the vulnerable, while also seeking to make
moral sense of international society.
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