William Bain
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1082301 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Bain |
| PRENOMES | William |
| SOBRENOME | Bain |
| ASSINATURA | BAIN W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3429-8311 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Theology and international order
Theology is a neglected resource in international relations scholarship; it is, more often than not, characterised as a threat to political order because it is seen as a cradle of fanaticism and irrationality. Postsecular scholarship challenges this view by exploring the persistence of theological ideas and religious belief in political discourse and practice. Political Theology of International Order is my own contribution to this type of schola…
Political Theology and International Relations
This article elaborates an account of political theology that is both historical and critical in orientation. Whereas the historical dimension excavates theological antecedents that inform the vocabulary of international relations, the critical dimension illuminates incoherence in accepted ways of thinking and speaking about the subject. The article develops these distinct, though complementary, modes of argument to illustrate what political theo…
Continuity and change in international relations 1919-2019
This article reflects on themes of continuity and change over the past century of international relations. In 1919 the victors of the First World War endeavoured to remake international relations by abolishing war and erecting institutional structures that were intended to promote a more just world order. The achievements and failures of this project can be discerned in overlapping patterns of continuity and change that portray a world that is at…
International anarchy and political theology
International relations and intellectual history
The history of international thought has traditionally focused on a limited number of canonical texts. Such an approach now seems both naive and parochial. International Relations scholars often read their own ideas into these texts instead of getting ideas from them - ideas that if properly understood have the potential to undermine theirs. By ignoring non-canonical texts, we overlook resources that are not only necessary to establish the histor…
Medieval Foundations of International Relations
Reason, faith and modernity
This is a reply to:Pabst, Adrian. 2015. “‘A habitual disposition to the good’: on reason, virtue and realism.” Global Discourse. 5 (2): 261–279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2015.1013385
Rival Traditions of Natural Law
Natural law is integral to Martin Wight's conception of international society. It is natural law that grounds the common values, the conditions of co-operation and mutual assistance, and most important of all, the sense of common obligation, which sets international society apart from the precarious, competitive anarchy that is the world of (political) realism. Natural law also holds out an alternative to the revolutionary claims of human solidar…
Thomas Hobbes as a Theorist of Anarchy
Scholars of international relations generally invoke Hobbes as the quintessential theorist of international anarchy. David Armitage challenges this characterisation, arguing that Hobbes is regarded as a foundational figure in international relations theory in spite of as much as because of what he wrote on the subject. Thus, for Armitage, Hobbes is not the theorist of anarchy that he is made out to be. This article agrees with the general thrust …
Repaying the National Debt to Africa
Responsibility and obligation in the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
This article takes up Louise Arbour's claim that the doctrine of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ is grounded in existing obligations of international law, specifically those pertaining to the prevention and punishment of genocide. In doing so, it argues that the aspirations of the R2P project cannot be sustained by the idea of ‘responsibility’ alone. The article proceeds in arguing that the coherence of R2P depends on an unacknowledged and unarti…
For Love of Order and Abstract Nouns
There are generally two ways of thinking about international administration and empire in contemporary world affairs. The first approach involves making a sharp distinction between past and present. This enterprise has as its object the separation of an irredeemable history of domination and exploitation from an enlightened engagement in international governance. The second approach also involves a journey through the world of history, albeit one…
Are There Any Lessons of History? The English School and the Activity of Being an Historian
One order, two laws
This article takes as its starting point the failure of the so-called normative wing of the English School to theorise the foundational determinants of value from which international society derives its normative character. In other words, they have not adequately thought through ‘the law behind the law’; that is, the underlying basis of obligation in international life. Thus, English School theorists are able to describe and to explain various n…
In praise of folly
Advocates of international administration tend to embrace conduct and utterance that proposes to vindicate fundamental human rights and freedoms by suspending an important part of its content: the principle that human beings should not be subject to coercion except where they have given their consent. This article begins by arguing that the character of this dilemma is obscured by a vocabulary of technique that divests the category ‘international…
Between Anarchy and Society
The international administration of troubled states—whether in Bosnia, Kosovo, or East Timor—has seen a return to the principle of trusteeship: i.e. situations in which some form of international supervision is required in a particular territory in order both to maintain order and to foster the norms and practices of fair self‐government. This book rescues the normative discourse of trusteeship from the obscurity into which it has fallen since de…
The Idea of Trusteeship in International Society
So-called 'international administrations' in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo and East Timor are said to represent a new form of trusteeship that points the way to restoring peace, order and security in other places devastated by war and poverty. This article attempts to clarify the idea of trusteeship and the mode of conduct it implies by considering its history in terms of three questions. Under what conditions may one person ru…
The Political Theory of Trusteeship and the Twilight of International Equality
The appalling state in which a significant proportion of the world's population lives has reinvigorated interest in trusteeship as a way of responding to problems of international disorder and injustice. Trusteeship presupposes a relationship in which a natural person or a legal person is responsible for the well-being of persons who are incapable of acting for themselves. This article explores what is at stake in resurrecting trusteeship in a so…
The Tyranny of Benevolence
(2001). The Tyranny of Benevolence: National Security, Human Security, and the Practice of Statecraft. Global Society: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 277-294
The Tyranny of Benevolence
Deconfusing Morgenthau
This article explores Jim George's claim that Hans Morgenthau's notion of political realism is founded upon a spectator theory of knowledge and that it discloses no meaningful distinction between theory and practice. An investigation of Morgenthau's understanding of scientific inquiry, the relation of theory and practice, and his views on American foreign policy suggests that both of these claims may be misplaced. Rather Morgenthau's realism is a…
Sino-Indian Military Modernization
(1994). Sino-Indian Military Modernization: The Potential for Destabilization. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 131-147
Deconfusing Morgenthau
This article explores Jim George's claim that Hans Morgenthau's notion of political realism is founded upon a spectator theory of knowledge and that it discloses no meaningful distinction between theory and practice. An investigation of Morgenthau's understanding of scientific inquiry, the relation of theory and practice, and his views on American foreign policy suggests that both of these claims may be misplaced. Rather Morgenthau's realism is a…
Thomas Hobbes as a Theorist of Anarchy
Scholars of international relations generally invoke Hobbes as the quintessential theorist of international anarchy. David Armitage challenges this characterisation, arguing that Hobbes is regarded as a foundational figure in international relations theory in spite of as much as because of what he wrote on the subject. Thus, for Armitage, Hobbes is not the theorist of anarchy that he is made out to be. This article agrees with the general thrust …
Are There Any Lessons of History? The English School and the Activity of Being an Historian
One order, two laws
This article takes as its starting point the failure of the so-called normative wing of the English School to theorise the foundational determinants of value from which international society derives its normative character. In other words, they have not adequately thought through ‘the law behind the law’; that is, the underlying basis of obligation in international life. Thus, English School theorists are able to describe and to explain various n…
The Tyranny of Benevolence
(2001). The Tyranny of Benevolence: National Security, Human Security, and the Practice of Statecraft. Global Society: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 277-294
In praise of folly
Advocates of international administration tend to embrace conduct and utterance that proposes to vindicate fundamental human rights and freedoms by suspending an important part of its content: the principle that human beings should not be subject to coercion except where they have given their consent. This article begins by arguing that the character of this dilemma is obscured by a vocabulary of technique that divests the category ‘international…
The Political Theory of Trusteeship and the Twilight of International Equality
The appalling state in which a significant proportion of the world's population lives has reinvigorated interest in trusteeship as a way of responding to problems of international disorder and injustice. Trusteeship presupposes a relationship in which a natural person or a legal person is responsible for the well-being of persons who are incapable of acting for themselves. This article explores what is at stake in resurrecting trusteeship in a so…
Political Theology and International Relations
This article elaborates an account of political theology that is both historical and critical in orientation. Whereas the historical dimension excavates theological antecedents that inform the vocabulary of international relations, the critical dimension illuminates incoherence in accepted ways of thinking and speaking about the subject. The article develops these distinct, though complementary, modes of argument to illustrate what political theo…
International anarchy and political theology
International relations and intellectual history
The history of international thought has traditionally focused on a limited number of canonical texts. Such an approach now seems both naive and parochial. International Relations scholars often read their own ideas into these texts instead of getting ideas from them - ideas that if properly understood have the potential to undermine theirs. By ignoring non-canonical texts, we overlook resources that are not only necessary to establish the histor…
Rival Traditions of Natural Law
Natural law is integral to Martin Wight's conception of international society. It is natural law that grounds the common values, the conditions of co-operation and mutual assistance, and most important of all, the sense of common obligation, which sets international society apart from the precarious, competitive anarchy that is the world of (political) realism. Natural law also holds out an alternative to the revolutionary claims of human solidar…
For Love of Order and Abstract Nouns
There are generally two ways of thinking about international administration and empire in contemporary world affairs. The first approach involves making a sharp distinction between past and present. This enterprise has as its object the separation of an irredeemable history of domination and exploitation from an enlightened engagement in international governance. The second approach also involves a journey through the world of history, albeit one…
Sino-Indian Military Modernization
(1994). Sino-Indian Military Modernization: The Potential for Destabilization. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 131-147
Deconfusing Morgenthau
This article explores Jim George's claim that Hans Morgenthau's notion of political realism is founded upon a spectator theory of knowledge and that it discloses no meaningful distinction between theory and practice. An investigation of Morgenthau's understanding of scientific inquiry, the relation of theory and practice, and his views on American foreign policy suggests that both of these claims may be misplaced. Rather Morgenthau's realism is a…
The Tyranny of Benevolence
(2001). The Tyranny of Benevolence: National Security, Human Security, and the Practice of Statecraft. Global Society: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 277-294
The Tyranny of Benevolence
Between Anarchy and Society
The international administration of troubled states—whether in Bosnia, Kosovo, or East Timor—has seen a return to the principle of trusteeship: i.e. situations in which some form of international supervision is required in a particular territory in order both to maintain order and to foster the norms and practices of fair self‐government. This book rescues the normative discourse of trusteeship from the obscurity into which it has fallen since de…
The Idea of Trusteeship in International Society
So-called 'international administrations' in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo and East Timor are said to represent a new form of trusteeship that points the way to restoring peace, order and security in other places devastated by war and poverty. This article attempts to clarify the idea of trusteeship and the mode of conduct it implies by considering its history in terms of three questions. Under what conditions may one person ru…
The Political Theory of Trusteeship and the Twilight of International Equality
The appalling state in which a significant proportion of the world's population lives has reinvigorated interest in trusteeship as a way of responding to problems of international disorder and injustice. Trusteeship presupposes a relationship in which a natural person or a legal person is responsible for the well-being of persons who are incapable of acting for themselves. This article explores what is at stake in resurrecting trusteeship in a so…
In praise of folly
Advocates of international administration tend to embrace conduct and utterance that proposes to vindicate fundamental human rights and freedoms by suspending an important part of its content: the principle that human beings should not be subject to coercion except where they have given their consent. This article begins by arguing that the character of this dilemma is obscured by a vocabulary of technique that divests the category ‘international…
Are There Any Lessons of History? The English School and the Activity of Being an Historian
One order, two laws
This article takes as its starting point the failure of the so-called normative wing of the English School to theorise the foundational determinants of value from which international society derives its normative character. In other words, they have not adequately thought through ‘the law behind the law’; that is, the underlying basis of obligation in international life. Thus, English School theorists are able to describe and to explain various n…
For Love of Order and Abstract Nouns
There are generally two ways of thinking about international administration and empire in contemporary world affairs. The first approach involves making a sharp distinction between past and present. This enterprise has as its object the separation of an irredeemable history of domination and exploitation from an enlightened engagement in international governance. The second approach also involves a journey through the world of history, albeit one…
Responsibility and obligation in the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
This article takes up Louise Arbour's claim that the doctrine of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ is grounded in existing obligations of international law, specifically those pertaining to the prevention and punishment of genocide. In doing so, it argues that the aspirations of the R2P project cannot be sustained by the idea of ‘responsibility’ alone. The article proceeds in arguing that the coherence of R2P depends on an unacknowledged and unarti…
Repaying the National Debt to Africa
Rival Traditions of Natural Law
Natural law is integral to Martin Wight's conception of international society. It is natural law that grounds the common values, the conditions of co-operation and mutual assistance, and most important of all, the sense of common obligation, which sets international society apart from the precarious, competitive anarchy that is the world of (political) realism. Natural law also holds out an alternative to the revolutionary claims of human solidar…
Thomas Hobbes as a Theorist of Anarchy
Scholars of international relations generally invoke Hobbes as the quintessential theorist of international anarchy. David Armitage challenges this characterisation, arguing that Hobbes is regarded as a foundational figure in international relations theory in spite of as much as because of what he wrote on the subject. Thus, for Armitage, Hobbes is not the theorist of anarchy that he is made out to be. This article agrees with the general thrust …
Reason, faith and modernity
This is a reply to:Pabst, Adrian. 2015. “‘A habitual disposition to the good’: on reason, virtue and realism.” Global Discourse. 5 (2): 261–279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2015.1013385
Medieval Foundations of International Relations
International anarchy and political theology
International relations and intellectual history
The history of international thought has traditionally focused on a limited number of canonical texts. Such an approach now seems both naive and parochial. International Relations scholars often read their own ideas into these texts instead of getting ideas from them - ideas that if properly understood have the potential to undermine theirs. By ignoring non-canonical texts, we overlook resources that are not only necessary to establish the histor…
Continuity and change in international relations 1919-2019
This article reflects on themes of continuity and change over the past century of international relations. In 1919 the victors of the First World War endeavoured to remake international relations by abolishing war and erecting institutional structures that were intended to promote a more just world order. The achievements and failures of this project can be discerned in overlapping patterns of continuity and change that portray a world that is at…
Theology and international order
Theology is a neglected resource in international relations scholarship; it is, more often than not, characterised as a threat to political order because it is seen as a cradle of fanaticism and irrationality. Postsecular scholarship challenges this view by exploring the persistence of theological ideas and religious belief in political discourse and practice. Political Theology of International Order is my own contribution to this type of schola…
Political Theology and International Relations
This article elaborates an account of political theology that is both historical and critical in orientation. Whereas the historical dimension excavates theological antecedents that inform the vocabulary of international relations, the critical dimension illuminates incoherence in accepted ways of thinking and speaking about the subject. The article develops these distinct, though complementary, modes of argument to illustrate what political theo…
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