Creating Legitimacy in a Pluralist World Order
A pluralist vision of creative legitimation sets a large and ambitious theoretical agenda for a post-Westphalian global order that has been gestating for a century or more.
Review – Pluralist Democracy in International Relations
Holthaus explores the work of three British thinkers, Hobhouse, Cole, and Mitrany, and highlights their relevance to today’s democracies.
A Rationale for Pluralism: The Rural, Remote Peasant
Policies that force people to choose between homogenization, fracture, or exclusion are rarely viable. Pluralism (institutional, cultural, social, and economic) offers extended periods of peace.
Introducing the English School in International Relations Theory
The English school offers insights into the potential of stabilising international society by embedding ideas not just in the minds of political and economic elites but also in the minds of ordinary citizens.
Review – Reconstructing Human Rights
This remarkable and innovative book offers an original understanding of human rights and contributes to the reflection on the nature and role of political theory.
Symbolic Violence and Post-election USA: A Parable
The extraordinary degree of diversity in the US population can be managed with narratives and terms of discourse that lead to discontent and upheaval, or to pluralism.
Review – Ethics, Diversity and World Politics: Saving Pluralism From Itself
John Williams provides essential insights for anyone with interest in ethical pluralism in contemporary politics, and sets the agenda for future research in this field.
Pluralism and International Society
One of the distinguishing characteristics of international society is its attention to a plurality of states operating within a mutually recognised society.
Pluralism, the English School and the Challenge of Normative Theory
English School pluralism does not deserve its current reputation as a statist, conservative and declining facet of the English School project.
Assessing State and Religious Institutions: A Comment from the Case of Angola
Angola has become in recent years an interesting case study through which one might consider the complexities of the geopolitics of faith in the twenty-first century.
