Sincerity in Politics and International Relations
This edited volume examines the concept of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality.
The volume features an international cast of authors who specialize in the topic of sincerity in politics and international relations. Looking at how sincerity bears on political actions, practices, and institutions at national and international level, the introduction serves to place the chapters in the context of ongoing contemporary debates on sincerity in politics and international theory. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary issue in politics and international relations, including corruption, public hypocrisy, cynicism, trust, security, policy formulation and decision-making, political apology, public reason, denial and self-deception, and will argue against the background of a Kantian view of sincerity as unconditional.
Offering a significant comprehensive outlook on the practical limits of sincerity in political affairs, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.
Sorin Baiasu is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University, UK. Apart from articles and chapters, he authored Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics (2011), and edited and co-edited several collections.
Sylvie Loriaux is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Laval University, Canada. She contributed articles to various journals, including Moral Philosophy and Politics and the European Journal of Political Theory.
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119 Exercising Human Rights Gender, agency, and practice Robin Redhead
120 State Responses to International Law Who complies? Kendall Stiles
121 Regional Integration and Democratic Conditionality How Democracy Clauses Help Democratic Consolidation and Deepening Gaspare M. Genna and Taeko Hiroi
122 Profits, Security and Human Rights in Developing Countries Global Lessons from Canadas Extractive Sector in Colombia Edited by James Rochlin
123 The Politics of Place and the Limits to RedistributionMelissa Ziegler Rogers
124 Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations The Importance of Being Sorry Edited by Christopher Daase, Stefan Engert, Michel-Andr Horelt, Judith Renner, and Renate Strassner
125 The United States and Turkeys Path to Europe Hands across the Table Armaan Emre aklr
126 Western Muslim Reactions to Conflicts Abroad Conflict Spillovers to Diasporas Juris Pupcenoks
127 U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa Political and Policy Challenges Robert J. Griffiths
128 Russias Relations with Kazakhstan Rethinking Post-communist Transitions in the Emerging World System Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva
129 Reinventing Regional Security Institutions in Asia and Africa Power shifts, ideas, and institutional change Kei Koga
130 Sincerity in Politics and International RelationsEdited by Sorin Baiasu and Sylvie Loriaux
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Names: Baiasu, Sorin, editor. | Loriaux, Sylvie, editor.
Title: Sincerity in politics and international relations / edited by Sorin
Baiasu and Sylvie Loriaux.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [2017] | Series:
Routledge advances in international relations and global politics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016038010| ISBN 9780415704175 (hbk) | ISBN 9780203762257 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Political science-Philosophy. | International relations-Philosophy. | Sincerity-Political aspects. | Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804-Political and social views.
Classification: LCC JA71.S483 2017 | DDC 320.01/9-dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038010
ISBN: 978-0-415-70417-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-76225-7 (ebk)
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Contributors
Esther Abin (Ph.D., Keele University) is Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy, University of Lille 3, and teacher in philosophy and ethics. She is currently working on a book drawn from her thesis Rationality and Morality in Political Theory: a paradigm shift.
Pamela Sue Anderson is Professor of Modern European Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford; and Fellow in Philosophy, Regents Park College, Oxford, UK. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1989 and an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 2009. Anderson has published numerous articles in modern European philosophy, since completing her Oxford DPhil, part of which was published in Ricoeur and Kant (1993). She also developed the groundwork for a new field: feminist philosophy of religion, publishing A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: the Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief (1998); Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings, co-edited with Beverley Clack (2004); New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate (2010); Kant and Theology
