European values in international relations / edited by Vilho Harle.

First published in 1990 by Pinter Publishers.

Papers presented at the TAPRI workshops on European values in international relations held May 29-31, 1987, in Tampere, Finland, and Sept. 22-24, 1988, in Helsinki, Finland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2016).

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 European Roots of Dualism and its Alternatives in International Relations; Dualistic modes of thinking; The relevance of the traditions of dualism; Common humanity as an alternative to dualism; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Heroism, the Construction of Evil, and Violence; The sociology of heroism; The dialectic of heroism; Heroic violence and reification; The process of reification; Naming; Legitimation; Myth-making; Sedimentation; Ritual; Transcending Manicheism; Notes; Bibliography

3 The Bomb-Sign: Notes on the Overvaluation of the ObjectIntroduction; The problem of tradition; Animal stories within the ritual; The overvaluation tendency and the peace movement; The bomb and its degeneration as a deterrent; The 'classical' phase; The 'sublime' phase; The 'scandalous' phase; Re-establishing the body politic; The bomb and revelation; Conclusion; Bibliography; 4 Burke the International Theorist-or the War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness; Burke the international theorist; Burke for peace; Burke for war; The war of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness

DiscussionNotes; Bibliography; 5 Carl Schmitt's Concept of the State and the 'Enemy'; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Philosophical History and the Third World: Hegel on Africa and Asia; Fabricating the single 'enlightened' world; Postmodernism and the Third World; Inventing the philosophy of history; Reason and the non-Europeans; Transcending Hegelianism; Notes; Bibliography; 7 Savagery and Neo-Savagery: An African Perspective on Peace; A negation of Europeanism; The many faces of the savage; The Savage disguised and involved; Europe and the resuscitation of savagery; In conclusion; Bibliography

8 The German Question from the Conservative Point of View, the Nuclear-Cosmic Age and Karl JaspersFeldmeyer and the time factor; Friedman and reunification as a security concept; Bernard Willms and the national imperative; Stiirmer, the raison d'etat and the German question; Jaspers, the German question and the conservative answers of the 1980s; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Violence-An Israeli Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; 10 In Europe's Shadow: Zionism and the Palestinian Fate; I; II; Postscript (May 1989); Notes; Bibliography; 11 European Values after the 'Euromissile Crisis'

Europe, source and victim of the process of militarizationThe inadequacy of the actual theories of peace and war; Towards a new theoretical framework; Europe, continent of militarization=modernization; 'European identity' as a reaction; The new European peace movement's view of the 'Euromissile debate'; Europe in the aftermath of the Euromissile crisis; In search of the theoretical foundations of a European cultural identity; Denis de Rougemont: from personalism to federalism; De Rougemont after the 'Euromissile crisis'; Conclusion: a cultural transformation towards peace in Europe?

"This book focuses on the problems and issues surrounding the idea of Europeanism. The theory that common values would form the basis of a single European identity is argued against and the contributors concentrate on dualistic distinctions, especially the dichotomy of friend and enemy in European political and international thought, and suggest alternatives to them."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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