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

'The Vulnerable Subject is a wonderful book. The volume's editors have assembled a collection of essays that collectively take the reader beyond now-familiar critiques not only of mainstream 'explanatory' IR theory, but also of rationalist normative theory. Eschewing well-worn oppositions and dichotomies, the authors challenge us to consider the implications of 'the vulnerable subject' in a wide range of theoretical and empirical positions related to global politics. If you teach or research in international relations or moral and political philosophy, this book may change the way you think about ethics, politics, your 'subject' and your self.' Fiona Robinson, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada

• 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