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This chapter attempts to demonstrate the essentially normative character of the discourses governing deterrence theory and foreign policy analysis, in order to make out the case that in the most important and challenging areas of traditional disciplinary concern normative considerations are central to the study of international relations. A further examination of the implications of global environmental change for the study (and practice) of international relations illustrates that in an area of relatively recent and particularly acute concern, the importance of these normative considerations is increasingly evident.
The principal weakness in modern understandings of the significance of the operations of state powers …comes from our more or less panicstricken imaginative incapacity to face up to the stunning cognitive intricacy of the political universe that we need to grasp.1
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Dyer, H.C. (1997). Normative Aspects of Deterrence, Foreign Policy and Environmental Change. In: Moral Order/World Order. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376625_8
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