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Title:International Relations, Irrelevant? Don’t blame theory
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:It is now commonplace to bemoan our field’s lack of practical relevance, and to blame this sorry situation on our penchant for ever-more abstract theorising over the analysis of real-world phenomena. This article challenges ...
Title:Special Responsibilities: Global problems and American power
Author(s):BUKOVANSKY, Mlada; CLARK, Ian; ECKERSLEY, Robyn; PRICE, Richard; REUS-SMIT, Christian; WHEELER, Nicholas J.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique obligations in managing ...
Title:Obligation through Practice
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the many calls for bridge building between the fields of International Law and International Relations, genuinely integrative studies are few and far between. Lawyers leaven their writings with a dash of real politic ...
Title:Struggles for Individual Rights and the Expansion of the International System
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We live today in the world’s first universal, multicultural, and multiregional system of sovereign states. Five centuries ago, emergent sovereign states were confined to Europe and contained within the bounds of Latin ...
Title:Human Rights in a Global Ecumene
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How should we understand the cultural politics that has surrounded the development of international human rights? Two perspectives frame contemporary debate. For ‘cultural particularists’, human rights are western artefacts; ...