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It is a familiar axiom that many of the best ideas for writing and research are generated after hours, over a drink or a meal away from the formality of the seminar room or conference panel. Mervyn Frost’s power ful contribution to this volume is a case in point. It had its genesis in a Chicago diner during the 2001 International Studies Association (ISA) Conference. According to him, I challenged him by suggesting that his constitutive approach to international ethical theory was ‘too progressive, optimistic and teleological’. The occasion was a convivial one and in truth I cannot remember the exact terms of my challenge. In the cold light of day I think his claim is partly right and partly wrong.
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J. Mayall (2000) World Politics, Progress and Its Limits (Cambridge: Polity Press), p. 153. This book has been recently updated and revised for publication in Japan (translation by Masayuki Tadokoro, Tokyo (2009)).
Quoted in N. Ashton (2002) Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War. The Irony of Interdependence ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan ), p. 131.
See G. M. Lyons and J. Mayall (eds) (2003) International Human Rights in the 21st Century, Protecting the Rights of Groups ( Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield ).
B. Boutros-Ghali (1992) Agenda for Peace (United Nations), para 18. For text, see A. Roberts and B. Kingsbury (eds) (1993) United Nations, Divided World. The UN’s Role in International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press ), Appendix A, pp. 468–98.
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Mayall, J. (2012). Tragedy, Progress and the International Order. In: Erskine, T., Lebow, R.N. (eds) Tragedy and International Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390331_3
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