Antonio Franceschet
Biographic Data
| ID | 2085344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Franceschet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Franceschet |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCESCHET A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4449-5610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Realist Ethos of Resistance in Global Politics
Realism is conventionally understood as coldly accepting the powerful dominating the weak. Reversing this image, I argue that Realism contains an implicit ethos of resistance. Drawing on a recent scholarship on the historical complexity and diversity of classical Realism in international relations (IR), this article uncovers this ethos by focusing on three shifts of perspective: (1) from an extreme to moderate view of power politics; (2) from nat…
The International Criminal Court’s Authority Crisis and Kant’s Political Ethics
The International Criminal Court ( icc ) faces a profound authority crisis. This article explores the underlying conditions and ethical implications of this crisis in light of Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) political theory. The icc ’s authority crisis is twofold: First, having been constructed as a purely legal actor, the Court’s inevitable role in politics has undermined perceptions of its legitimacy. Second, having been constructed as a supranati…
Theorizing state civil disobedience in international politics
Illegal state actions are sometimes interpreted as civil disobedience. Yet, liberal theorists insist that, to count as such, states must intend to reform the systemic imperfections of the international legal order. Moreover, states must have the capacity to engineer such reforms responsibly. These requirements result in an elitist conception of international civil disobedience because weaker states cannot refashion the key rules of the internatio…
Rethinking states in international politics
The International Criminal Court's Provisional Authority to Coerce
The United Nations ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda had primacy over national judicial agents for crimes committed in these countries during the most notorious civil wars and genocide of the 1990s. The UN Charter granted the Security Council the right to establish a tribunal for Yugoslavia in the context of ongoing civil war and against the will of recalcitrant national agents. The Council used that same right to punish indivi…
Kant, International Law, and the Problem of Humanitarian Intervention
International law has one principal mechanism for settling the legality of humanitarian interventions, the United Nations Security Council's power to authorise coercion. However, this is hardly satisfactory in practice and has failed to provide a more secure juridical basis for determining significant conflicts among states over when humanitarian force is justified. This article argues that, in spite of Immanuel Kant's limited analysis of interve…
Classical Theory in International Relations
Classical political theorists such as Thucydides, Kant, Rousseau, Smith, Hegel, Grotius, Mill, Locke and Clausewitz are often employed to explain and justify contemporary international politics and are seen to constitute the different schools of thought in the discipline. However, traditional interpretations frequently ignore the intellectual and historical context in which these thinkers were writing as well as the lineages through which they ca…
Cosmopolitan ethics and global legalism
This article analyses the legal and ethical dimensions of the wide gap between commitments to universal human rights and the reality of their widespread and systematic abuse, particularly as related to poverty and inequality. The argument put forward is that, properly conceived, global legalism, that is, the quest to apply the rule of law across and among states and societies, and cosmopolitan ethics, both support restricting harms imposed on wea…
The Politics of Global Legalism and Human Security
This article argues that human security discourses and initiatives are made intelligible by the politics of applying legalism to global politics. Human security projects like the International Criminal Court, the Ottawa Treaty on landmines, and coercive interventions like Kosovo are shaped, mobilised, but also limited and constrained by the wider problematic of the legal constitution of global politics. Although human security has been the justif…
Kant's Critique of Hobbes
Kant's Critique of Hobbes , Howard Williams, Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2003, pp. 244. Howard Williams argues that Immanuel Kant's (1724–1804) international political theory is a significant critique of Thomas Hobbes'(1588–1679) theory of the sovereign state. Kant's critique is rooted in a conviction that reform, rather than revolution, is the only rationally defensible response to an empirically defective sovereign. In other word…
The Rule of Law, Inequality, and the International Criminal Court
The rule of law is not a transcendent principle or objective fact but a regulative ideal. The core of this ideal is that different legal subjects are mutually constrained by noninstrumental obligations. Stated somewhat differently, the rule of law means that there are certain legal ends that cannot be legitimately sacrificed or used for some other's purpose(s). Paradoxically, the rule of law is employed or used for different purposes in world ord…
Justice and International Organization
Recent events suggest that justice is a central yet neglected ele ment in theory and practice of international organization. For example, in March 1999, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched a war in Yugoslavia to curb abuse of human rights by Serbs in Kosovo province, but without approval of United Nations Security Council. This violated a sovereign state's territorial in tegrity, in addition to UN norms, but NATO leaders spoke of r…
Moral Principles and Political Institutions
Sovereignty and freedom
This article explores a fundamental division among contemporary liberal internationalists regarding the relationship between state sovereignty and the goal of freedom. The article suggests that, in spite of his popular status among a wide variety of contemporary liberal international theorists, Immanuel Kant's political philosophy is an extraordinarily ambiguous ‘legacy’ because of the dualistic doctrine of state sovereignty to which he subscribe…
Global Limits
Popular Sovereignty or Cosmopolitan Democracy
Liberals have long disagreed about the nature and purposes of international reform. This article juxtaposes two recent research programmes that are premised on typically liberal assumptions and goals — democratic peace theory and the cosmopolitan democracy model. Two central claims are advanced. First, both of these liberal approaches are premised upon radically different depictions of Immanuel Kant's legacy — or at least what his legacy ought to…
Empire and Community
Part One: Introduction Burke and International Relations Burkes Life and International Affairs Burke and the Theory of International Relations Burkes Relevance Part Two: Writings and Speeches: Selections On Ireland On America On India On the French Revolution
Pierre Laberge (1937–1997)
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The Ethical Foundations of Liberal Internationalism
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COLD WAR several optimistic assessments emerged about the future of world politics, in sharp contrast to the assumptions rooted in political realism that had guided the discipline of international relations (IR) throughout the cold war. According to some, liberal internationalism was undergoing a renaissance.(f.1) More cautious voices have understandably been raised since then. Of course, realists have had a direct stake in …
Cosmopolitanism, sovereignty and the theory of European integration
This article claims that Immanuel Kant's unique international thought can contribute to theorising about European integration. The specific nature of this contribution is the lesson that cosmopolitan aspirations and the continued existence of autonomous states should not be viewed as mutually exclusive, but are the fundamental terms with which the process of integration must negotiate continually. The approach of the article is to assemble the es…
The Republican Legacy in International ThoughtNicholas Greenwood Onuf Cambridge
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Empire and Community
Part One: Introduction Burke and International Relations Burkes Life and International Affairs Burke and the Theory of International Relations Burkes Relevance Part Two: Writings and Speeches: Selections On Ireland On America On India On the French Revolution
Theorizing state civil disobedience in international politics
Illegal state actions are sometimes interpreted as civil disobedience. Yet, liberal theorists insist that, to count as such, states must intend to reform the systemic imperfections of the international legal order. Moreover, states must have the capacity to engineer such reforms responsibly. These requirements result in an elitist conception of international civil disobedience because weaker states cannot refashion the key rules of the internatio…
The Rule of Law, Inequality, and the International Criminal Court
The rule of law is not a transcendent principle or objective fact but a regulative ideal. The core of this ideal is that different legal subjects are mutually constrained by noninstrumental obligations. Stated somewhat differently, the rule of law means that there are certain legal ends that cannot be legitimately sacrificed or used for some other's purpose(s). Paradoxically, the rule of law is employed or used for different purposes in world ord…
Global Limits
Popular Sovereignty or Cosmopolitan Democracy
Liberals have long disagreed about the nature and purposes of international reform. This article juxtaposes two recent research programmes that are premised on typically liberal assumptions and goals — democratic peace theory and the cosmopolitan democracy model. Two central claims are advanced. First, both of these liberal approaches are premised upon radically different depictions of Immanuel Kant's legacy — or at least what his legacy ought to…
A Realist Ethos of Resistance in Global Politics
Realism is conventionally understood as coldly accepting the powerful dominating the weak. Reversing this image, I argue that Realism contains an implicit ethos of resistance. Drawing on a recent scholarship on the historical complexity and diversity of classical Realism in international relations (IR), this article uncovers this ethos by focusing on three shifts of perspective: (1) from an extreme to moderate view of power politics; (2) from nat…
The International Criminal Court's Provisional Authority to Coerce
The United Nations ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda had primacy over national judicial agents for crimes committed in these countries during the most notorious civil wars and genocide of the 1990s. The UN Charter granted the Security Council the right to establish a tribunal for Yugoslavia in the context of ongoing civil war and against the will of recalcitrant national agents. The Council used that same right to punish indivi…
Moral Principles and Political Institutions
Sovereignty and freedom
This article explores a fundamental division among contemporary liberal internationalists regarding the relationship between state sovereignty and the goal of freedom. The article suggests that, in spite of his popular status among a wide variety of contemporary liberal international theorists, Immanuel Kant's political philosophy is an extraordinarily ambiguous ‘legacy’ because of the dualistic doctrine of state sovereignty to which he subscribe…
The Ethical Foundations of Liberal Internationalism
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COLD WAR several optimistic assessments emerged about the future of world politics, in sharp contrast to the assumptions rooted in political realism that had guided the discipline of international relations (IR) throughout the cold war. According to some, liberal internationalism was undergoing a renaissance.(f.1) More cautious voices have understandably been raised since then. Of course, realists have had a direct stake in …
Cosmopolitanism, sovereignty and the theory of European integration
This article claims that Immanuel Kant's unique international thought can contribute to theorising about European integration. The specific nature of this contribution is the lesson that cosmopolitan aspirations and the continued existence of autonomous states should not be viewed as mutually exclusive, but are the fundamental terms with which the process of integration must negotiate continually. The approach of the article is to assemble the es…
Justice and International Organization
Recent events suggest that justice is a central yet neglected ele ment in theory and practice of international organization. For example, in March 1999, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched a war in Yugoslavia to curb abuse of human rights by Serbs in Kosovo province, but without approval of United Nations Security Council. This violated a sovereign state's territorial in tegrity, in addition to UN norms, but NATO leaders spoke of r…
Cosmopolitanism, sovereignty and the theory of European integration
This article claims that Immanuel Kant's unique international thought can contribute to theorising about European integration. The specific nature of this contribution is the lesson that cosmopolitan aspirations and the continued existence of autonomous states should not be viewed as mutually exclusive, but are the fundamental terms with which the process of integration must negotiate continually. The approach of the article is to assemble the es…
The Republican Legacy in International ThoughtNicholas Greenwood Onuf Cambridge
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pierre Laberge (1937–1997)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Ethical Foundations of Liberal Internationalism
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COLD WAR several optimistic assessments emerged about the future of world politics, in sharp contrast to the assumptions rooted in political realism that had guided the discipline of international relations (IR) throughout the cold war. According to some, liberal internationalism was undergoing a renaissance.(f.1) More cautious voices have understandably been raised since then. Of course, realists have had a direct stake in …
Popular Sovereignty or Cosmopolitan Democracy
Liberals have long disagreed about the nature and purposes of international reform. This article juxtaposes two recent research programmes that are premised on typically liberal assumptions and goals — democratic peace theory and the cosmopolitan democracy model. Two central claims are advanced. First, both of these liberal approaches are premised upon radically different depictions of Immanuel Kant's legacy — or at least what his legacy ought to…
Empire and Community
Part One: Introduction Burke and International Relations Burkes Life and International Affairs Burke and the Theory of International Relations Burkes Relevance Part Two: Writings and Speeches: Selections On Ireland On America On India On the French Revolution
Sovereignty and freedom
This article explores a fundamental division among contemporary liberal internationalists regarding the relationship between state sovereignty and the goal of freedom. The article suggests that, in spite of his popular status among a wide variety of contemporary liberal international theorists, Immanuel Kant's political philosophy is an extraordinarily ambiguous ‘legacy’ because of the dualistic doctrine of state sovereignty to which he subscribe…
Global Limits
Justice and International Organization
Recent events suggest that justice is a central yet neglected ele ment in theory and practice of international organization. For example, in March 1999, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched a war in Yugoslavia to curb abuse of human rights by Serbs in Kosovo province, but without approval of United Nations Security Council. This violated a sovereign state's territorial in tegrity, in addition to UN norms, but NATO leaders spoke of r…
Moral Principles and Political Institutions
The Rule of Law, Inequality, and the International Criminal Court
The rule of law is not a transcendent principle or objective fact but a regulative ideal. The core of this ideal is that different legal subjects are mutually constrained by noninstrumental obligations. Stated somewhat differently, the rule of law means that there are certain legal ends that cannot be legitimately sacrificed or used for some other's purpose(s). Paradoxically, the rule of law is employed or used for different purposes in world ord…
Cosmopolitan ethics and global legalism
This article analyses the legal and ethical dimensions of the wide gap between commitments to universal human rights and the reality of their widespread and systematic abuse, particularly as related to poverty and inequality. The argument put forward is that, properly conceived, global legalism, that is, the quest to apply the rule of law across and among states and societies, and cosmopolitan ethics, both support restricting harms imposed on wea…
The Politics of Global Legalism and Human Security
This article argues that human security discourses and initiatives are made intelligible by the politics of applying legalism to global politics. Human security projects like the International Criminal Court, the Ottawa Treaty on landmines, and coercive interventions like Kosovo are shaped, mobilised, but also limited and constrained by the wider problematic of the legal constitution of global politics. Although human security has been the justif…
Kant's Critique of Hobbes
Kant's Critique of Hobbes , Howard Williams, Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2003, pp. 244. Howard Williams argues that Immanuel Kant's (1724–1804) international political theory is a significant critique of Thomas Hobbes'(1588–1679) theory of the sovereign state. Kant's critique is rooted in a conviction that reform, rather than revolution, is the only rationally defensible response to an empirically defective sovereign. In other word…
Classical Theory in International Relations
Classical political theorists such as Thucydides, Kant, Rousseau, Smith, Hegel, Grotius, Mill, Locke and Clausewitz are often employed to explain and justify contemporary international politics and are seen to constitute the different schools of thought in the discipline. However, traditional interpretations frequently ignore the intellectual and historical context in which these thinkers were writing as well as the lineages through which they ca…
Kant, International Law, and the Problem of Humanitarian Intervention
International law has one principal mechanism for settling the legality of humanitarian interventions, the United Nations Security Council's power to authorise coercion. However, this is hardly satisfactory in practice and has failed to provide a more secure juridical basis for determining significant conflicts among states over when humanitarian force is justified. This article argues that, in spite of Immanuel Kant's limited analysis of interve…
The International Criminal Court's Provisional Authority to Coerce
The United Nations ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda had primacy over national judicial agents for crimes committed in these countries during the most notorious civil wars and genocide of the 1990s. The UN Charter granted the Security Council the right to establish a tribunal for Yugoslavia in the context of ongoing civil war and against the will of recalcitrant national agents. The Council used that same right to punish indivi…
Theorizing state civil disobedience in international politics
Illegal state actions are sometimes interpreted as civil disobedience. Yet, liberal theorists insist that, to count as such, states must intend to reform the systemic imperfections of the international legal order. Moreover, states must have the capacity to engineer such reforms responsibly. These requirements result in an elitist conception of international civil disobedience because weaker states cannot refashion the key rules of the internatio…
Rethinking states in international politics
The International Criminal Court’s Authority Crisis and Kant’s Political Ethics
The International Criminal Court ( icc ) faces a profound authority crisis. This article explores the underlying conditions and ethical implications of this crisis in light of Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) political theory. The icc ’s authority crisis is twofold: First, having been constructed as a purely legal actor, the Court’s inevitable role in politics has undermined perceptions of its legitimacy. Second, having been constructed as a supranati…
A Realist Ethos of Resistance in Global Politics
Realism is conventionally understood as coldly accepting the powerful dominating the weak. Reversing this image, I argue that Realism contains an implicit ethos of resistance. Drawing on a recent scholarship on the historical complexity and diversity of classical Realism in international relations (IR), this article uncovers this ethos by focusing on three shifts of perspective: (1) from an extreme to moderate view of power politics; (2) from nat…
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