Vulnerable Subject

EARL GAMMON Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia, UKKIMBERLY HUTCHINGS Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UKTORSTEN MICHEL Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, UKRYOKO NAKANO Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of SingaporeROBBIE SHILLIAM Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, UKBRENT J. STEELE Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, USA

• Introduction; A.R.Beattie & K.Schick PART I: A Place of Greater Safety? Securing Judgement in International Ethics; K.Hutchings Gillian Rose and Vulnerable Judgement; K.Schick Vulnerability, Moral Luck & the Morality of Natural Law; A.R.Beattie Trust, Rationality and Vulnerability in International Relations; T.Michel PART II 'The Damage was permanent, there would always be scars': Vulnerability and Accountability in a Post-rational World; B.J.Steele Who will Provide the West with Therapy?; R.Shilliam Pathological Vulnerability and the Politics of Climate Change; E.Gammon Between Self-esteem and Self-respect: Vulnerability in Japanese Foreign Policy; R.Nakano Conclusion; A.R.Beattie

'The Vulnerable Subject is a wonderful book. The volume's editors have assembled acollection of essays that collectively take the reader beyond now-familiar critiquesnot only of mainstream 'explanatory' IR theory, but also of rationalist normativetheory. Eschewing well-worn oppositions and dichotomies, the authors challenge usto consider the implications of 'the vulnerable subject' in a wide range of theoreticaland empirical positions related to global politics. If you teach or research in internationalrelations or moral and political philosophy, this book may change the wayyou think about ethics, politics, your 'subject' and your self.'Fiona Robinson, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada