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Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period - The Obligations of Power (Hardcover)
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Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period - The Obligations of Power (Hardcover)
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Rabindrinath Tagore (1861-1941) and Amartya Sen (1933-) defend a
distinctive form of foreign policy internationalism in their
writings. Instead of increasing the economic and military power of
democratic states relative to their authoritarian competitors,
Tagore and Sen focus on the need to diminish the capacity for
violence in all states, regardless of regime type. In Sen's view, a
program of nuclear disarmament, a coordinated reduction in global
military spending, and a coordinated reduction in the global arms
trade should be woven into international law. This book argues that
the distance between Tagore and Sen's foreign policy
recommendations and the policies pursued by the leading states in
the international system is better understood when it is viewed in
terms of the early Indian classical period. In particular, the idea
that violent actions lead to violent responses-and are therefore
both immoral and imprudent-is prominently expressed in the early
Buddhist Discourses and the Ashokan inscriptions as well as the
writings of Tagore and Sen. The ethical standard of the obligations
of power articulated by Tagore and Sen provides a better foundation
for thinking about human security than the social contract
tradition.
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