Global Challenges: War, Self-Determination and Responsibility for JusticeISBN: 978-0-7456-3835-5
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224 pages
February 2006, Polity
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Marit Hovdal Moan, Journal of Peace Research
"This work offers a new facet for international discourse not
only on violence, war and conflict resolution, but also about
issues relating to sovereignty, global governance, peace and
justice. The author's knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject are
compelling. An admirable aspect of the book is the treatment of the
topics from theoretical and comparative perspectives before putting
them into specific contexts; this provides the book's strength. The
massive amount of data and information assembled in the process
also offer much material to both the general reader and experts
eager for an alternative approach to thinking about war, violence,
peace building, sovereignty and conflict resolution."
Sociology
"Global Challenges is a collection of essays that apply
Iris Young’s penetrating philosophical inquiry to some of the
most important issues in world politics today. Young brings a
thoughtful critical analysis of self-determination, humanitarian
intervention, violence, global democracy and justice to matters
ranging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the anti-sweatshop
movement in the garment industry. This deeply ethical book is a
must-read for students of global politics and international theory.
Young’s courageous moral stand against injustice and war
gives us a realistic road-map for a more just and peaceful future.
Her wise counsel will be sorely missed."
J. Ann Tickner, University of Southern California
"This collection combines all that is remarkable in Iris Marion
Young’s work – her philosophical clarity, her moral
anger with violence and injustice, and her irrepressible belief in
the possibility of a better world. Global Challenges helps us think
more clearly about what it means to bear responsibility for
injustices in other parts of the world, and what self-determination
means in a context of global interdependence."
Anne Phillips, London School of Economics
"Realistic, yet hopeful, these last essays by Iris Young show
that a different world is possible. She understands well the
massive weight of globalizing structures that inflict violence,
domination, uniformity. But her lucid analyses illustrate how
intelligent politics can resist, deflect, and reform these forces
– through new ideas, developed specifically for particular
contexts of oppression, and through collaboration with existing
social movements (anti-war, anti-sweatshops). Appreciating how she
interprets the world differently, we learn how to change
it."
Thomas Pogge, Columbia University
"Iris Marion Young was one of the truly original political
theorists of our dark times. She brought something new into the
world. This superb collection of articles on global politics, all
first published between 2000 and 2006, is exemplary of her
courageous and challenging practice of critical thought at its
best."
James Tully, University of Victoria