`A lucid, comprehensive analysis of normative approaches to international relations, and an original contribution to critical theory' -
Andrew Linklater, University of Keele`Hutchings combines a valuable account of the current state of the art with a lucid expositon of her own, highly distinctive, position. This will be required reading for students in international political theory, and indeed anyone interested in normative issues in international relations' - Chris Brown, London School of Economics and Political Science
Providing an invaluable overview of the competing schools of thought in traditional and contemporary international theory, this book seeks to path the way forward for new ways of thinking about international political morality.
First, the role and place of normative theory in the study of international politics is explained before a discussion of mainstream approaches within international relations an