On the global politics of “decency” and “restraint”

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-04-10 DOI:10.1177/17550882211008941

Christopher Peys

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Abstract

This essay offers a review of both Roach’s Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics and Steele’s Restraint in International Politics. Exploring the concept-driven modes of analysis employed in each of these two texts, this essay investigates how Roach and Steele theorize the moral, socio-psychological, and political struggles inherent to the notions of decency and restraint. This review is not only devoted to understanding Roach’s and Steele’s respective arguments about how global politics has been conditioned by the tensions inherent to decency and restraint but, also, to reflecting on how these two scholars suggest we deal—theoretically and practically—with the complexities of these two notions in today’s world. At a time when various forces of indecent, unrestrained behavior have arguably led to an exclusionary politics of identity, rancor, and enmity, Roach’s and Steele’s books demonstrate—conceptually, empirically, and normatively—how we can understand the global politics of decency and restraint, as well as how people(s) around the world can begin to take more dignified steps in a just, democratic direction.

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论“正派”与“克制”的全球政治

本文对罗奇的《体面与差异:人性与身份政治的全球挑战》和斯蒂尔的《国际政治中的克制》进行了评述。本文探索了这两篇文章中所采用的概念驱动的分析模式，研究了罗奇和斯蒂尔如何将道德、社会心理和政治斗争理论化，这些斗争固有于体面和克制的概念中。这篇评论不仅致力于理解罗奇和斯蒂尔各自关于全球政治如何受到体面和克制的内在紧张关系的制约的论点，而且也反思这两位学者建议我们如何在理论和实践中处理这两个概念在当今世界的复杂性。当各种不雅、不受约束的行为导致了一种身份认同、怨恨和敌意的排他性政治时，罗奇和斯蒂尔的书从概念上、经验上和规范上展示了我们如何理解体面和克制的全球政治，以及世界各地的人们如何开始朝着公正、民主的方向迈出更有尊严的一步。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.