What does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)? This handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the critical debates about responsibility that are currently being undertaken in IR theory.
This handbook both reflects upon an emerging field based on an engagement in the most crucial theoretical debates and serves as a foundational text by showing how deeply a discussion of responsibility is embedded in broader questions of IR theory and practice. Contributions cover the way in which responsibility is theorized across different approaches in IR and relevant neighboring disciplines and demonstrate how responsibility matters in different policy fields of global governance. Chapters with an empirical focus zoom in on particular actor constellations of (emerging) states, international organizations, political movements, or corporations, or address how responsibility matters in structuring the politics of global commons, such as oceans, resources, or the Internet.
Providing a comprehensive overview of IR scholarship on responsibility, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in many fields including IR, international law, political theory, global ethics, science and technology, area studies, development studies, business ethics, and environmental and security governance.
Author(s): Hannes Hansen-Magnusson, Antje Vetterlein
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Cover
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Title Page
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CONTENTS
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Responsibility in International Relations theory and practice: Introducing the handbook
PART I: Theories of responsibility in International Relations
2. A plural theory of responsibility
3. The emergence of responsibility as a global scheme of governance
4. Human rights approach(es) to responsibility
5. Political responsibility in a globalized but fractured age
6. Moral irresponsibility in world politics
7. Rationalization, reticence, and the demands of global social and economic justice
8. Responsibility and authority in global governance
9. Responsibility and the English School
PART II: Mapping responsibility relations across policy fields
10. The assigning and erosion of responsibility for the global environment
11. Moral geographies of responsibility in the global agrifood system
12. State responsibilities and international nuclear politics
13. Delegating moral responsibility in war: Lethal autonomous weapons systems and the responsibility gap
14. Negotiating protection through responsibility
15. From Lisbon to Sendai: Responsibilities in international disaster management
PART III: Responsibility relations: Subjects, objects and speakers of responsibility
16. Responsible diplomacy: Judgments, wider national interests and diplomatic peace
17. Rising powers and responsibility
18. Responsibility as an opportunity: China’s water governance in the Mekong region
19. Responsibility as practice: Implications of UN Security Council responsibilization
20. Rebel with a cause: Rebel responsibility in intrastate conflict situations
21. What responsibility for international organisations? The independent accountability mechanisms of the multilateral development banks
22. The international labour organization’s role to ensure decent work in a globalized economy: A contested responsibility?
23. Business and responsibility for human rights in global governance
24. Social media actors: Shared responsibility 3.0?
PART IV: Global commons as responsibility objects
25. Responsibility on the high seas
26. The role of humanity’s responsibility towards biodiversity: The BBNJ treaty
27. A responsibility to freeze? The Arctic as a complex object of responsibility
28. Shareholders, supervisors, and stakeholders: Practices of financial responsibility and their limits
29. Diplomacy and responsibilities in the transnational governance of the cyber domain
PART V: Critical reflections and theoretical debates
30. Framing responsibility research in international relations
31. Academic responsibility in the face of climate change
32. Responsibility as political beauty? Derrida’s ethics of decision and the politics of responding to others
33. On potential and limits of the concept of responsibility as a reference point for the use of practical reason
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