The Vulnerable Subject

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Amanda Russell Beattie, Kate Schick

      Pages 1-21

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. A Place of Greater Safety? Securing Judgement in International Ethics

      • Kimberly Hutchings

      Pages 25-42

   3. Gillian Rose and Vulnerable Judgement

      • Kate Schick

      Pages 43-61

   4. Vulnerability, Moral Luck and the Morality of Natural Law

      • Amanda Russell Beattie

      Pages 62-85

   5. Trust, Rationality and Vulnerability in International Relations

      • Torsten Michel

      Pages 86-109

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. ‘The damage was permanent, there would always be scars’: Vulnerability and Accountability in a Post-Rational World

      • Brent J. Steele

      Pages 113-132

   3. Who Will Provide the West with Therapy?

      • Robbie Shilliam

      Pages 133-148

   4. Pathological Vulnerability and the Politics of Climate Change

      • Earl Gammon

      Pages 149-170

   5. Between Self-Esteem and Self-Respect: Vulnerability in Japanese Foreign Policy

      • Ryoko Nakano

      Pages 171-192

   6. Conclusion

      • Amanda Russell Beattie

      Pages 193-203

5. Back Matter

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This book develops a concept of vulnerability in International Relations that allows for a profound rethinking of a core concept of international politics: means-ends rationality. It explores traditions that proffer a more complex and relational account of vulnerability.

• foreign policy
• international politics
• international relations
• morality
• natural law
• Policy
• politics
• trust

'The Vulnerable Subject is a wonderful book. The volume's editors have assembled a

collection of essays that collectively take the reader beyond now-familiar critiques

not only of mainstream 'explanatory' IR theory, but also of rationalist normative

theory. Eschewing well-worn oppositions and dichotomies, the authors challenge us

to consider the implications of 'the vulnerable subject' in a wide range of theoretical

and empirical positions related to global politics. If you teach or research in international

relations or moral and political philosophy, this book may change the way

you think about ethics, politics, your 'subject' and your self.'

Fiona Robinson, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada

• Aston University, UK

  Amanda Russell Beattie

• Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  Kate Schick

EARL GAMMON Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK TORSTEN MICHEL Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, UK RYOKO NAKANO Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore ROBBIE SHILLIAM Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, UK BRENT J. STEELE Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, USA

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