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Part I General Overview -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part II Ali Mazrui and the Study of International Relations (IR) -- Chapter 2 The Birth of a Scholar -- Chapter 3 Mazrui's Rise and Decline in IR -- Chapter 4 Mazrui's Revival in IR -- Part III Ali Mazrui's Postcolonial Constructivismm -- Chapter 5 Postcolonialism -- Chapter 6 Constructivism -- Chapter 7 Postcolonial Constructivism -- Part IV The Vocabulary of Ali Mazrui's Discourse -- Chapter 8 Paradoxical Propositions -- Chapter 9 Analytical Categories -- Part V Semi-Autobiographical Data -- Chapter 10 Mazrui's Interactions with Others.

"Epistemic Communities, Constructivism and International Environmental Politics brings together 25 years of publications by Peter M. Haas. The book examines how the world has changed significantly over the last 100 years, discusses the need for new, constructivist scholarship to understand the dynamics of world politics, and highlights the role played by transnational networks of professional experts in global governance. Combining an intellectual history of epistemic communities with theoretical arguments and empirical studies of global environmental conferences, as well as international organizations and comparative studies of international environmental regimes, this book presents a broad picture of social learning on the global scale. In addition to detailing the changes in the international system since the Industrial Revolution, Haas discusses the technical nature of global environmental threats. Providing a critical reading of discourses about environmental security, this book explores governance efforts to deal with global climate change, international pollution control, stratospheric ozone, and European acid rain. With a new general introduction and the addition of introductory pieces for each section, this collection offers a retrospective overview of the author's work and is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental politics, international relations and global politics"--

Contemporary liberal political justification is often accused of preaching to the converted: liberal principles are acceptable only to people already committed to liberal values. Catriona McKinnon addresses this important criticism by arguing that self-respect and its social conditions should be placed at the heart of the liberal approach to justification. A commitment to self-respect delivers a commitment to the liberal values of toleration and public reason, but self-respect itself is not an exclusively liberal value

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Arguments for Ethical Constructivism -- Chapter 1 Ethical Constructivism and Its Origins -- 1 Supernaturalist and Realist Externalism -- 2 Subjectivist and Contractarian Internalism -- 3 Kantian Transcendentalism and Procedural Morality -- 4 Korsgaard's Neo-Kantian Thoroughgoing Constructivism -- 5 Saving Constructivism from Inadequacies: Enlightenism -- Chapter 2 Public Reasons as the Basis of Objective Morality -- 1 Procedural Publicity -- 2 Reasons as the Basis for Morality