Argument and Change in World Politics:

Arguments have consequences in world politics that are as real as the military forces of states or the balance of power among them. Neta Crawford reveals how ethical arguments, not power politics or economics, explain decolonization, the greatest change in world politics to occur over the last five hundred years. The book also analyzes how argument might be used to to remake contemporary world politics, suggesting how such arguments apply to the issue of humanitarian intervention.

List of illustrations

x

List of tables

xi

Acknowledgments

xii

Introduction

1

(10)

Argument, belief, and culture

11

(71)

Ethical argument and argument analysis

82

(49)

Colonial arguments

131

(28)

Decolonizing bodies: ending slavery and denormalizing forced labor

159

(42)

Faces of humanitarianism, rivers of blood

201

(48)

Sacred trust

249

(42)

Self-determination

291

(52)

Alternative explanations, counterfactuals, and causation

343

(56)

Poiesis and praxis: toward ethical world politics

399

(37)

Appendix: African decolonization

436

(4)

Select bibliography

440

(17)

Index

457

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Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention

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