Weale, Albert;
(2025)
Legitimate realism? On Tucker's Global Discord.
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
10.1080/13698230.2025.2512267.
(In press).
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Abstract
Paul Tucker’s Global Discord offers two principal claims. The first predicts a global order of alliances among nations who share some common values, forming a pattern of concentric circles. The second suggests that domestic and international legitimacy in such an order can be normatively understood in terms of David Hume’s theory of conventions and Bernard Williams’s theory of legitimacy. How far can this Hume-Williams programme be justified? Hume’s theory can be questioned by noting that legitimate governmental systems typically need to transcend local conventions. Williams’s theory relies on theorising government in a partial way as involving a public forum. By contrast, a modified contractarian theory, based on mutual advantage among parties with roughly equal power enables us to distinguish whether appeals to culturally specific values are made in good faith, as well as providing the intellectual basis for the virtue of political courage.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Legitimate realism? On Tucker's Global Discord |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13698230.2025.2512267 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2025.2512267 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Conventions, global order, Hume-Williams programme, legitimacy, realism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217727 |
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