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This innovative volume brings a selection of leading political theorists to the wide-ranging debate on multiculturalism and political legitimacy. By focusing on the challenge to mainstream liberal theory posed by the surge of interest in the rights of minority groups and subcultures within states, the authors confront issues such as rights, liberalism, cultural pluralism and power relations.

PurposeRecent developments in US rhetoric and policy advocating the militarisation and marketisation of outer space challenge the global commons values and regimes that developed partly in response to decolonisation. These regimes embodied aspirations to post-colonial distributive justice, as well as to international management for peaceful purposes. The purpose of this paper is to argue that global commons values should be defended against these challenges in order to avoid the risk of exporting colonial legacies of injustice into outer space.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is an exercise in normative International Political Theory and so develops normative arguments by drawing on approaches in political theory and international law.FindingsThis paper demonstrates that the commons values endorsed in the aftermath of colonialism retain their relevance in a global politics that remains structured by post-colonial power relations. This paper also demonstrates that these commons values have evolved and found expression in central elements of international law, persisting as resources to be drawn on in normative argument.Originality/valueThis study places recent moves to assert US hegemony in space in the context of persistent post-colonial power relations and develops novel arguments in renewed support of commons values.

What role should the idea of evil have in contemporary moral and social thought?. The concept of 'evil' has long been a key idea in moral discourse. Now, the contributors to this volume make a start on the important task of systematically exploring evil in the context of political theory. Intuitively, we know what evil means. Yet once we begin to think about its meaning we quickly uncover competing definitions. In recent years, political theorists have generally set the concept aside as outdated or inappropriate. Yet the idea that some things are wrong beyond toleration still has significant currency. If 'evil' can capture that significance, it merits a closer look. Key Features. Presents a broad ranging exploration of the idea of evil in contemporary theory Offers a philosophical analysis of the role of evil in ethics Analyses the idea of evil in classic arguments

Each chapter explores the limits and possibilities of effective ethical reasoning in the current political and intellectual climate. This entire volume is driven by the thought that we need to develop an ethical vocabulary that can make critical judgement

The liberal and democratic political order is underpinned by universal principles of justice. However, the universality of these principles is now being questioned and undermined by challenges from postmodernism, communitarianism, multiculturalism and other forms of anti-foundationalism. These challenges highlight the sheer diversity of cultures and values, treating liberal values and democratic political culture as one idea of social organization amongst many. While social and political orders are capable of almost endless variation, it may be that not every diverse order is legitimate and we can justifiably regard some forms of social organization as beyond the pale and a 'thin' form of universalism has been developed to support this contention. The core idea behind 'thin universalism' is that it is possible to rehabilitate the universalist aspirations of normative theory while acknowledging the force of many antifoundationalist and multiculturalist criticisms of universalism. This book brings together prominent international political theorists to explain and discuss this contested concept and explore how we can stand up for and act upon principles in a world characterized by cultural difference, moral skepticism, and political division. The authors present a variety of perspectives: some chapters are sympathetic to the idea of a thin universalist account of justification, some are reluctant advocates and others are skeptical about its success or even desirability. Opening out core debates in contemporary normative theory, this volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars working in the fields of contemporary political theory, political philosophy and IR theory.

Chapter 1. Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David Sullivan, Peter Sutch, Howard Williams) -- Part VII: Challenges to the World Order -- Chapter 2. Rethinking Money and Trade (Aaron James) -- Chapter 3.Security in the Global Context: Blurring the Internal-External Divide (Alistair J. K. Shepherd) -- Chapter 4. Global Climate Change: Political Realism and the Case for a World Climate Bank (Alyssa R. Bernstein) -- Chapter 5. Environmental Responsibility: Oceans and the Polar Regions (Hannes Hansen-Magnusson) -- Chapter 6. Reparations for Loss and Damage? The Cosmopolitan Right in the Context of the Coloniality of Climate (Milla Vaha) -- Chapter 7. The Legitimacy of International Law (Paul B. Stephan) -- Part VIII: Justice, Reconciliation and Restoration -- Chapter 8. Global Distributive Justice (Peri Roberts) -- Chapter 9. Global Inequalities, Pluralism and Tolerance (Justyna Miklaszewska) -- Chapter 10. Crimes Against Humanity (Andrew Altman) -- Chapter 11. Private Property and the International Law System (Alice Pinheiro Walla) -- Part IX: Peace, Conflict and Force in the 21st Century -- Chapter 12. Political Violence Misliked: the Meaning of 'Terrorism' (Christopher J Finlay) -- Chapter 13. Desire and the Political Theology of the International (John-Harmen Valk) -- Chapter 14. Humanitarian Interventions: Ethical Dilemmas for Humanitarian NGOs (Charlotte Dany) -- Chapter 15. Just War Theory and Drone Warfare: Morality, Virtual Wars and Human Security in the War on Terror (Lily Hamourtziadou) -- Chapter 16. Democratic Peace? (Jeff Bridoux) -- Part X: Global (Mis)Conceptions -- Chapter 17. The Nature and Limits of Rawls's International Vision (David Reidy) -- Chapter 18. Cosmopolitanism: Power Matters (Antonio Franceschet and Holly Ching) -- Chapter 19. Gender Politics: Towards a Feminist Rethinking of Disaster Response (Jordan Pascoe and Mitch Stripling) -- Chapter 20. The Clash of Civilizations and the End of History (David Sullivan) -- Chapter 21. The Open Society and Attitudes to Transnational Migration: A Process Sociological Approach to Liberal Democratic Anxieties (Alexander Mack) -- Chapter 22. The Crisis of Decency in World Politics (Steven C. Roach) .

Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David Sullivan, Peter Sutch, and Howard Williams) -- Part I: The Ancient World -- Chapter 1. The Chinese Contribution to Theorizing International Relations (Rosita Dellios) -- Chapter 2.Thucydides and Social Processes: Beyond Tragedy (Alexandros Koutsoukis) -- Chapter 3. Stoicism, Cicero and Relations Among Nations (David Boucher) -- Part II: Early Christianity and Early Modern Christianity -- Chapter 4. Augustine, Realism, and their Revealed Truth (Huw L. Williams) -- Chapter 5. The Roman Empire and the Universal Church (Cary C. Nederman) -- Chapter 6. Crusader-Muslim Relations: The Power of Diplomacy in a Troubling Age (Suleiman A. Mourad) -- Chapter 7. The Conceptual Challenge: Europe and the New World (Camilla Boisen) -- Part III: The Westphalian Moment -- Chapter 8.Dynamic cosmopolis: The "Westphalian world order" and beyond (Georg Cavallar) -- Chapter 9.The Cosmopolitan Challenge: Cosmopolitan Ideas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Oliver Eberl) -- Chapter 10. The Positivist Challenge, the Rise of Realism, and the Demise of Nationalism (Felix Rösch) -- Part IV: Colonialism, Decolonisation and Postcolonialism -- Chapter 11. Amílcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism, Liberation (Branwen Gruffydd Jones) -- Chapter 12. Imperialism and its critics (Demin Duan and Howard Williams) -- Chapter 13. The African Challenge and its Aftermath: Colonial Legacies and the (Re)making of the International Legal Order (Sara Dezalay) -- Chapter 14. New Imperialism (Brett Bowden) -- Part V: Progress and Promise of International Law -- Chapter 15. Practicing Humanity: Humanisation and Contemporary International Political Theory (Peter Sutch and Oliver Pierce) -- Chapter 16. Hegel and International Political Theory (Tony Burns) -- Chapter 17. Just War Theory: Past, Present, and Future (Cian O'Driscoll) -- Chapter 18. Three Axial Ages of Religion, Law and Global Constitutionalism (Hauke Brunkhorst) -- Part VI: Challenges to Sovereignty, Territory and Borders -- Chapter 19. Conceptual Foundations of Sovereignty and the Rise of the Modern State (Silviya Lechner) -- Chapter 20. Nationalism and Intrastate Diversities (Andrew Vincent) -- Chapter 21. Universal Obligations: Jus Cogens and Obligations (Erga Omnes Christian Tomuschat) -- Chapter 22. Self-Determination and Secession: An Act of Collective Emancipation (Costas Laoutides) -- Chapter 23. Migration Across Borders (Gillian Brock) -- Chapter 24. Remedying Cosmopolitan Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples, Kant, and Historical Injustice (Timothy Waligore) -- Chapter 25.Women and War (Caron E. Gentry and Rebecca Wilson).

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2 DARKNESS AND SILENCE: EVIL AND THE WESTERN LEGACY -- Chapter 3 CONSTRUCTIVISM AND EVIL -- Chapter 4 SYSTEMIC EVIL AND THE LIMITS OF PLURALISM -- Chapter 5 UNREASONABLE OR EVIL? -- Chapter 6 EVIL IN CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY: ACTS THAT SHOCK THE CONSCIENCE OF MANKIND -- Chapter 7 DOING EVIL JUSTLY? THE MORALITY OF JUSTIFIABLE ABOMINATION -- Chapter 8 EVIL AND THE LEFT -- Chapter 9 THE GLAMOUR OF EVIL: DOSTOYEVSKY AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSGRESSION -- Chapter 10 THE RHETORIC OF MORAL EQUIVALENCE -- Chapter 11 BANAL BUT NOT BENIGN: ARENDT ON EVIL -- INDEX

A major new reference volume - The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism is the premier collection of material on a comprehensive range of topics in contemporary liberalism.Liberal theory has been caricatured by its critics as an abstract, unworldly, trivial philosophical navel-gazing pursuit. The Companion counters this view by showing how liberalism can tackle wide-ranging practical concerns that urgently demand attention in twenty-first century politics. Rather than presenting contemporary liberalism simply and narrowly as a survey of what its main academic protagonists have said over the past 30 years, the guiding principle of the volume is to conceptualise it primarily as a set of themes and approaches informed by the challenges to the practice of liberal politics.Issues such as human rights, citizenship, nationalism, feminism, international communities, supranational orders, post-communism and ecocentrism take their place alongside the more familiar and well-worked themes of justice and justification as topics for liberal theorising. The reader is vividly shown the ways in which liberalism engages directly with the problems of practical political life today.This wide-ranging account of contemporary liberal thinking places the emphasis on agenda-setting, showing that contemporary liberalism is live - relevant, proactive, continuously engaged and adaptable - and that the problems faced by the liberal order are sufficiently complex and perplexing to demand the serious, rigorous philosophical reflection offered by contemporary liberal political theory.The Companion allows the reader to explore liberalism's contemporary relevance and to look to its likely future developments. With contributors including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden, Richard Bellamy, Rex Martin, Margaret Canovan, Diana T. Meyers, and Kate Soper, this large, definitive edition will be a must-buy for all libraries and a key reference tool for all those with an interest in contemporary liberalism.Key FeaturesMajor reference work - the only comprehensive reference work on contemporary liberalismShows how liberalism is relevant to practical issues such as human rights, citizenship, international communities and post-communismLooks to the future development of liberalismContributions from the leading figures in the field of liberalism including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden and Rex Martin