The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations

Hannes Hansen-Magnusson, Antje Vetterlein, Hannes Hansen-Magnusson, Antje Vetterlein

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781032004228
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429561283
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

What does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)? This handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the critical debates about responsibility that are currently being undertaken in IR theory.

This handbook both reflects upon an emerging field based on an engagement in the most crucial theoretical debates and serves as a foundational text by showing how deeply a discussion of responsibility is embedded in broader questions of IR theory and practice. Contributions cover the way in which responsibility is theorized across different approaches in IR and relevant neighboring disciplines and demonstrate how responsibility matters in different policy fields of global governance. Chapters with an empirical focus zoom in on particular actor constellations of (emerging) states, international organizations, political movements, or corporations, or address how responsibility matters in structuring the politics of global commons, such as oceans, resources, or the Internet.

Providing a comprehensive overview of IR scholarship on responsibility, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in many fields including IR, international law, political theory, global ethics, science and technology, area studies, development studies, business ethics, and environmental and security governance.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1 Responsibility in International Relations theory and practice: Introducing the handbook
• PART I Theories of responsibility in International Relations
• 2 A plural theory of responsibility
• 3 The emergence of responsibility as a global scheme of governance
• 4 Human rights approach(es) to responsibility
• 5 Political responsibility in a globalized but fractured age
• 6 Moral irresponsibility in world politics
• 7 Rationalization, reticence, and the demands of global social and economic justice
• 8 Responsibility and authority in global governance
• 9 Responsibility and the English School
• PART II Mapping responsibility relations across policy fields
• 10 The assigning and erosion of responsibility for the global environment
• 11 Moral geographies of responsibility in the global agrifood system
• 12 State responsibilities and international nuclear politics
• 13 Delegating moral responsibility in war: Lethal autonomous weapons systems and the responsibility gap
• 14 Negotiating protection through responsibility
• 15 From Lisbon to Sendai: Responsibilities in international disaster management
• PART III Responsibility relations: Subjects, objects and speakers of responsibility
• 16 Responsible diplomacy: Judgments, wider national interests and diplomatic peace
• 17 Rising powers and responsibility
• 18 Responsibility as an opportunity: China's water governance in the Mekong region
• 19 Responsibility as practice: Implications of UN Security Council responsibilization
• 20 Rebel with a cause: Rebel responsibility in intrastate conflict situations
• 21 What responsibility for international organisations? The independent accountability mechanisms of the multilateral development banks
• 22 The international labour organization's role to ensure decent work in a globalized economy: A contested responsibility?
• 23 Business and responsibility for human rights in global governance
• 24 Social media actors: Shared responsibility 3.0?
• PART IV Global commons as responsibility objects
• 25 Responsibility on the high seas
• 26 The role of humanity's responsibility towards biodiversity: The BBNJ treaty
• 27 A responsibility to freeze? The Arctic as a complex object of responsibility
• 28 Shareholders, supervisors, and stakeholders: Practices of financial responsibility and their limits
• 29 Diplomacy and responsibilities in the transnational governance of the cyber domain
• PART V Critical reflections and theoretical debates
• 30 Framing responsibility research in International Relations
• 31 Academic responsibility in the face of climate change
• 32 Responsibility as political beauty? Derrida's ethics of decision and the politics of responding to others
• 33 On potential and limits of the concept of responsibility as a reference point for the use of practical reason
• Index