Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from July 2002

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from July 2002

International regimes and the legitimacy of rules: a discourse-ethical approach.
July 1, 2002... How, given the absence of a universally shared set of values at the international level, may international rules possessing legitimacy be articulated? That is the question addressed by this article. Those who argue that international...

Engaging globalization: critical theory and global political change.
July 1, 2002... Globalization implies global social and political change. Irrespective of whether one identifies globalization as primarily driven by economics or as a cultural phenomenon occurring in the context of technological change and a transformation of...

Language, legitimacy, and the project of critique.
July 1, 2002... We are...in a world in which power figures and reconfigures; in which human artifice must struggle with human necessities; in which notions such as justice, freedom, compassion, and autonomy, authority, legitimacy, security and force animate,...

Theodor Adorno's aesthetic understanding: an ethical method for IR?(international relations)
July 1, 2002... Aesthetic identity seeks to aid the nonidentical, which in reality is repressed by reality's compulsion to identity. --Theodor Adorno One of the central aims of the recent critical turn in IR theory has been to show that the...

Radical phenomenology, ontology, and international political theory.
July 1, 2002... This article is a contribution to the investigation of the possible methodologies available to the study of global politics. Conceived as a rejoinder to those who demand not merely positivist but rigorous research, it is motivated by the belief...