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At the turn of the century, ethical issues are haunting international politics with ever greater intensity. The majority of post-Cold War events ranging from the genocides in ex-Yugoslavia and Central Africa, the 911 terrorist attacks, and the continuing troubles over Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and North Korea show that ruptures against pacific patterns of international relations have a continuous connection, although to varying degrees, with state failures. Weak and internally divided states translate in turn into nonexistent or capricious foreign relations, boding ill for the international community. This paper suggests that Confucian political philosophy, much neglected in mainstream western theorising on International Relations, can contribute to the location and examination of ethical agendas in international politics through its normative understandings of learned statesmanship tending towards rationality and respect, cultivation of moral utilitarian compacts between rulers and the ruled, and its resultant of spontaneous soft power across time and space. Confucianism offers for exploration the possibility that domestic good governance and the ability to wield soft power are two sides of the same coin in International Relations. |
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Name: International Studies Association
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| Chong, Alan. "A Confucian Perspective on International Politics - Moral Force and 'Soft Power'" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69728_index.html> |
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| Chong, A. , 2005-03-05 "A Confucian Perspective on International Politics - Moral Force and 'Soft Power'" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69728_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
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Abstract: At the turn of the century, ethical issues are haunting international politics with ever greater intensity. The majority of post-Cold War events ranging from the genocides in ex-Yugoslavia and Central Africa, the 911 terrorist attacks, and the continuing troubles over Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and North Korea show that ruptures against pacific patterns of international relations have a continuous connection, although to varying degrees, with state failures. Weak and internally divided states translate in turn into nonexistent or capricious foreign relations, boding ill for the international community. This paper suggests that Confucian political philosophy, much neglected in mainstream western theorising on International Relations, can contribute to the location and examination of ethical agendas in international politics through its normative understandings of learned statesmanship tending towards rationality and respect, cultivation of moral utilitarian compacts between rulers and the ruled, and its resultant of spontaneous soft power across time and space. Confucianism offers for exploration the possibility that domestic good governance and the ability to wield soft power are two sides of the same coin in International Relations. |
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| A CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVE ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICS MORAL FORCE AS `SOFT POWER' ALAN CHONG Communitarian aspects of international political theory might be just as richly explored by reading classical texts in both western and non-western contexts. Addressing the `margins' of the discipline. Nature of knowledge in the context of globalization: contribution of local (i.e. East Asian in this case) traditions. The Asian scholar's attempt to recover a sense of philosophical authenticity in the `next stage' of International Relations theorising. |
| the examination of the care of the virtue of the self. Therein lies the factor of moral force which can be applied through ordinary government and national notions of communitarian welfare. The leaders must set themselves up as examples of moral rectitude understood as benevolence loyalty and submission to virtue. Good governance then has a bearing on cross-border relations because examples constitute co-optive power towards those who hunger for rightly- ordered government outside of the sphere of harmony and |
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