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Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts' consolidates the disparate strands of Arendt's thought to provide an accessible and essential guide for anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this leading intellectual figure.

Providing a thorough analysis of relevant literature and covering numerous key issues, Patrick Hayden deftly examines the connections between accounts of cosmopolitanism and the part they play in contemporary global politics. He explores how cosmopolitan theories can function positively in processes of shaping international norms.

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Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most powerful political theorists. This book intends is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and debates surrounding globalization.

Deals with traditions of international ethics and major normative and political perspectives on the role, evolution, and significance of ethics within international affairs. This book explores ethical thinking in regard to the key problems of war, conflict, violence, and peace within the international system.

A critical study of the work of an influential political theorist and philosopher, reflecting his substantial contribution to debates on international justice and human rights.

Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts' consolidates the disparate strands of Arendt's thought to provide an accessible and essential guide for anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this leading intellectual figure.

John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order' is a concise and detailed analysis of one of the foremost political philosophers of our time that demonstrates the importance of Rawls's work for contemporary debates regarding international relations, world politics and human rights.

Award-winning anthologists Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden have combed through a year's worth of books and magazines and websites to find the most outstanding fantasy and science fiction stories of 2004--and collected them into a single volume aimed specifically at teens and young adults. Many of today's most popular authors are represented here, including: * Garth Nix, author of "Sabriel, " "Lirael, " and "Abhorsen, " who presents a...

This volume uses elements of Arendt¿s theory to engage with four distinctive political problems connected with contemporary globalization: genocide, global poverty, refugees and the domination of the public realm by neoliberal economic globalization.

Serving as a forum for a diverse array of views and issues, this book fosters the exploration of both theory and practice in the intersecting realms of politics and ethics. The essays presented here run the gamut of topics from global to state concerns, from the brutal conflict in East Timor to the impact of market forces in society. Scholarly research and viewpoints make this collection of papers an important resource for the studying and sol...

A consistently high-profile issue, oversight of earth's resources and environment is important to all people. The debate rages, pitting the needs of business against the desires of environmentalists. Although numerous summits have occurred to formulate international policy on this topic, a solution has proven elusive. This book compiles a selection of articles studying the implications of such summits and the importance of environmental regula...

The notion of recognition, drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, has become increasingly central to international debates in recent years, yet there have been few attempts to critically examine new theoretical positions and empirical analyses of its possible meanings, limits and manifestations. Recognition and global politics examines the potential and limitations of the discourse of recognition as a strategy for reframing justice and injustice ...

The Philosophy of Human Rights brings together an extensive collection of classical and contemporary writings on the topic of human rights, including genocide, ethnic cleansing, minority cultures, gay and lesbian rights, and the environment, providing an exceptionally comprehensive introduction. Sources include authors such as Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Confucius, Hobbes, Locke, rant. Marx, Gandhi. Hart, Feinberg, Nussbaum, the Dalai L...