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Territorial borders, toleration and the English School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2002

John Williams
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Abstract

This article offers an assessment of the ethical status of territorial borders, arguing for a partial defence of their role in international relations. Utilising the English School as one way such a defence has been developed, it assesses pluralist and solidarist arguments, suggesting both are flawed. The article develops a notion of territorial borders as contributing to the value of tolerating difference in international relations, and that this is an ethically desirable thing to do. It doing so it utilises the political theory of Hannah Arendt as an alternative to more common, if usually implicit, liberal understandings.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 737 - 758
Copyright
© 2002 British International Studies Association

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