Locke on the Moral Basis of International Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Ward (0000-0001-5723-5853, Campion College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 691-705 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00210.x |
| OpenAlex | W2157321292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 55 |
This article aims to focus analysis of Locke's theory of international relations away from the familiar discourse of sovereignty and natural law and toward a different discourse involving self‐government and international society. It argues that Locke's conception of international society balanced interrelated, overlapping, and even competing claims about sovereignty and natural law in a normative framework in which the right of self‐government replaced the principle of sovereignty as the moral basis of international relations. Thus, for Locke the norms deduced from the law of nature govern the international state of nature even as independent societies remain the primary executors of the law of nature in international society. The article concludes by considering how Locke's reflections on international relations may contribute to our understanding of contemporary debates about sovereignty, the use of force, and the ethics of intervention
Government (linguistics · International law · International relations · International relations theory · Law and economics · Natural (archaeology · Natural law · Normative · Political science · Politics · Post-realism · Relation (database · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |