Catherine Lu
Palgrave Macmillan (Jan. 2006)
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403989478
Shortlisted for the 2008 C.B. Macpherson Prize of the Canadian Political Science Association.
About the book: Contemporary scenes of human conflict, cruelty and catastrophe have prompted calls for the international community to intervene in defence of our common humanity. At the same time, the 2003 US-led military intervention in Iraq to oust a domestic tyrant, Saddam Hussein, has generated great normative debate about its legitimacy. Tapping insights and controversies from feminist political theory, Catherine Lu argues that debates between realists, communitarians, and cosmopolitans about the ethics of intervention in world politics are disciplined by competing models of the public/private distinction. A focus on this construct illuminates alternative images of 'sovereignty as privacy ' and 'sovereignty as responsibility', and identifies new ethical challenges arising from the increased agency of private global civil society actors, and their uneasy relationship with the world of states in contexts of 'humanitarian intervention'. This book should interest scholars of international ethics, world order, human right, international law and society, and global civil society.
About the author: Catherine Lu is Vice-Chair (2008-2010) of the International Ethics Section and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She has published articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on-line), The Journal of Political Philosophy, The European Journal of Social Theory, Journal of International Law and International Relations, International Studies Review, Ethics and International Affairs, International Relations, and Review of International Studies, on themes such as justice, cosmopolitanism, world government, moral regeneration after war, and the role of emotions in post-war political conflict. Currently, Lu is completing a book on problems of moral accounting and regeneration in world politics. She is also a Co-convenor of the Standing Group in International Political Theory of the European Consortium for Political Research.
Contact: catherine.lu@mcgill.ca
