What is it about?
The article presents Realism in IR (as represented by E.H. Carr) as analogous to pragmatism in philosophy (as represented by William James). The article argues we can understand the ethical positions of Realism better by means of this dual reading.
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Why is it important?
This article allows us to revise the standard disciplinary description of Carr as being uninterested in ethical concerns and opens up new lines of inquiry into the nature of the relationship between politics and ethics in IR.
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This page is a summary of: Pragmatism, Realism and the ethics of crisis and transformation in international relations, International Theory, October 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1752971914000189.
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