Normative theory in international relations : a pragmatic approach / Molly Cochran.

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.

Molly Cochran offers an account of the development of normative theory in international relations over the past two decades. In particular, she analyses the tensions between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to international ethics and offers an argument for a pragmatist approach.

Evaluating the impasse. Cosmopolitanism : Rawlsian approaches to international distributive justice ; Communitarianism : Michael Walzer and international justice ; Beyond the impasse? : Hegelian method in the cosmopolitanism of Andrew Linklater and the communitarianism of Mervyn Frost -- Confronting the impasse. Poststructuralist antifoundationalism, ethics, and normative IR theory ; Neo-pragmatist antifoundationalism, ethics, and normative IR theory -- International ethics as pragmatic critique. International ethics as pragmatic critique : a pragmatic synthesis of the work of John Dewey and Richard Rorty ; Facilitating moral inclusion : feminism and pragmatic critique ; From moral imagination to international public spheres : the political and institutional implications of pragmatic critique.

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