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Open access government, Apr 15, 2024
Open access government, Jan 22, 2024
Open Access Government, Jan 6, 2023
The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27)-tasked, like every annual UNFCCC conference,... more The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27)-tasked, like every annual UNFCCC conference, to accelerate climate ambition and action-duly laboured under the current global crises. What and where next? 2022 has been a year of multi-dimensional crises as the Russian invasion of Ukraine fostered an energy crisis, deepened the food crisis and, intensified the water crisis and the 'post-Covid' debt crisis. COP27 certainly felt the impact of these crises. Expectations of the conference were low. Indeed there was understandable worry from the environmental community that the oil and gas sector, heavily represented at Sharm El-Sheikh, would turn the climate conference into a 'world gas trade fair' (pushing gas as the solution to the energy crisis). The dilemmas posed, for the developed countries, between short-term energy security and longer-term climate action and, for the developing countries, between development and climate action were not addressed head-on.
Perspectives on Politics, Aug 31, 2022
Open Access Government, Apr 13, 2023
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Feb 19, 2014
ABSTRACT This article returns to recent debate in this journal on the pertinence or impertinence ... more ABSTRACT This article returns to recent debate in this journal on the pertinence or impertinence of tragedy to international relations theory and world politics. Following post-Kantian methodology, it argues that tragic insight points up the immanence of ethics to politics, cutting across distinctions between the normative and the positive, the idealist and the realist, that are particular to the field of international relations. In distinction to Lebow's same use of this method it theorizes this immanence in early Hegelian terms of `causality of fate' and `equality of life' in order to gain general purchase on the kind of ethical community that individualism in international political practice and theory can ignore.
Pluto Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
Open Access Government, Oct 5, 2022
COP27 is an opportunity for climate leadership to begin the longterm transition to net-zero, but ... more COP27 is an opportunity for climate leadership to begin the longterm transition to net-zero, but is this now possible? asks Richard Beardsworth, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds The UN Climate Change Conference COP26 (Glasgow, 2021) heralded the next eight to ten years a 'critical decade', one in which a 45% reduction of GHG emissions was necessary to 'keep alive' an average global temperature increase of 1.5°C by 2100. How to square the long-term transition to a net-zero energy system? The focus on 'following the science of 1.5°C' constituted a major pillar of the UK COP presidency. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, together with the ensuing energy, food, and cost of living crises, climate leadership has been faced with an acute dilemma: how to square the long-term transition to a net-zero energy system, one that follows the science, with short-term energy security. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in May that independence from fossil fuels was the only answer to "current problems on the energy market", ending a fifty-year foreign policy predicated on energy interdependence between Russia and (West) Germany. But European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans responded, "we have no choice but to look for [fossil fuel] alternatives in the short-run".
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jan 4, 2021
Ethics & International Affairs, 2015
Responsibility for the provision of global public goods is generally couched in moral terms: term... more Responsibility for the provision of global public goods is generally couched in moral terms: terms that, to one side of the important moral argument, signal the deficit of global collective action despite recent engagements in the normative concept of “sovereignty as responsibility.” In this context the article seeks greater emphasis, in morally informed reflection on world politics, on political responsibility. The argument is made in two steps. The article considers first the specificity of moral responsibility and the inextricability of moral and political interest in international relations. Having situated both with regard to the decision-making structures of national government, the article argues, second, for a normative reconfiguration of political duty in terms of task-efficacy, republican legitimacy, and political leadership. As a result, a badly needed marriage between national priorities and global threats and challenges is made possible.
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 1995
Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 2008
On both theoretical and analytic accounts, cosmopolitanism and realism seem destined to bypass ea... more On both theoretical and analytic accounts, cosmopolitanism and realism seem destined to bypass each other, one entering, at best, the normative dimension of social science, the other, stressing its positive dimension. In this article, I want to suggest that this opposition needs to be unsettled for future theorization and (perhaps) practice of world politics. Taking these two schools of thought is exemplary since their respective theoretical modalities and tenets seem so far opposed. Arguing for convergence between them constitutes part of an emerging attempt, on the part of political philosophers, theorists and international relations scholars today, to recast the conceptual landscape of international relations in response to present complexities of political agency. This convergence is here situated in terms of: (1) the legitimacy of power; (2) the increasing immanence of justice to power in an interdependent world; and (3) the importance of moral leadership in the world political...
International Encyclopedia of Political Science, 2011
Open access government, Apr 15, 2024
Open access government, Jan 22, 2024
Open Access Government, Jan 6, 2023
The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27)-tasked, like every annual UNFCCC conference,... more The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27)-tasked, like every annual UNFCCC conference, to accelerate climate ambition and action-duly laboured under the current global crises. What and where next? 2022 has been a year of multi-dimensional crises as the Russian invasion of Ukraine fostered an energy crisis, deepened the food crisis and, intensified the water crisis and the 'post-Covid' debt crisis. COP27 certainly felt the impact of these crises. Expectations of the conference were low. Indeed there was understandable worry from the environmental community that the oil and gas sector, heavily represented at Sharm El-Sheikh, would turn the climate conference into a 'world gas trade fair' (pushing gas as the solution to the energy crisis). The dilemmas posed, for the developed countries, between short-term energy security and longer-term climate action and, for the developing countries, between development and climate action were not addressed head-on.
Perspectives on Politics, Aug 31, 2022
Open Access Government, Apr 13, 2023
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Feb 19, 2014
ABSTRACT This article returns to recent debate in this journal on the pertinence or impertinence ... more ABSTRACT This article returns to recent debate in this journal on the pertinence or impertinence of tragedy to international relations theory and world politics. Following post-Kantian methodology, it argues that tragic insight points up the immanence of ethics to politics, cutting across distinctions between the normative and the positive, the idealist and the realist, that are particular to the field of international relations. In distinction to Lebow's same use of this method it theorizes this immanence in early Hegelian terms of `causality of fate' and `equality of life' in order to gain general purchase on the kind of ethical community that individualism in international political practice and theory can ignore.
Pluto Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
Open Access Government, Oct 5, 2022
COP27 is an opportunity for climate leadership to begin the longterm transition to net-zero, but ... more COP27 is an opportunity for climate leadership to begin the longterm transition to net-zero, but is this now possible? asks Richard Beardsworth, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds The UN Climate Change Conference COP26 (Glasgow, 2021) heralded the next eight to ten years a 'critical decade', one in which a 45% reduction of GHG emissions was necessary to 'keep alive' an average global temperature increase of 1.5°C by 2100. How to square the long-term transition to a net-zero energy system? The focus on 'following the science of 1.5°C' constituted a major pillar of the UK COP presidency. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, together with the ensuing energy, food, and cost of living crises, climate leadership has been faced with an acute dilemma: how to square the long-term transition to a net-zero energy system, one that follows the science, with short-term energy security. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in May that independence from fossil fuels was the only answer to "current problems on the energy market", ending a fifty-year foreign policy predicated on energy interdependence between Russia and (West) Germany. But European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans responded, "we have no choice but to look for [fossil fuel] alternatives in the short-run".
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jan 4, 2021
Ethics & International Affairs, 2015
Responsibility for the provision of global public goods is generally couched in moral terms: term... more Responsibility for the provision of global public goods is generally couched in moral terms: terms that, to one side of the important moral argument, signal the deficit of global collective action despite recent engagements in the normative concept of “sovereignty as responsibility.” In this context the article seeks greater emphasis, in morally informed reflection on world politics, on political responsibility. The argument is made in two steps. The article considers first the specificity of moral responsibility and the inextricability of moral and political interest in international relations. Having situated both with regard to the decision-making structures of national government, the article argues, second, for a normative reconfiguration of political duty in terms of task-efficacy, republican legitimacy, and political leadership. As a result, a badly needed marriage between national priorities and global threats and challenges is made possible.
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 1995
Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 2008
On both theoretical and analytic accounts, cosmopolitanism and realism seem destined to bypass ea... more On both theoretical and analytic accounts, cosmopolitanism and realism seem destined to bypass each other, one entering, at best, the normative dimension of social science, the other, stressing its positive dimension. In this article, I want to suggest that this opposition needs to be unsettled for future theorization and (perhaps) practice of world politics. Taking these two schools of thought is exemplary since their respective theoretical modalities and tenets seem so far opposed. Arguing for convergence between them constitutes part of an emerging attempt, on the part of political philosophers, theorists and international relations scholars today, to recast the conceptual landscape of international relations in response to present complexities of political agency. This convergence is here situated in terms of: (1) the legitimacy of power; (2) the increasing immanence of justice to power in an interdependent world; and (3) the importance of moral leadership in the world political...
International Encyclopedia of Political Science, 2011