Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility

<p>At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional state-based addressees of legal accountability it is not clear yet how blame is allocated and contested in the new highly differentiated multi-actor governance arrangements of the global economy and world society.<em> Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility</em> investigates how actors in complex governance arrangements assign responsibilities to order the world and negotiate who is responsible for what and how. </p><p>The book asks how moral duties can be defined beyond the territorial and legal confines of the nation-state; and how obligations and accountability mechanisms for a post-national world in which responsibility remains vague ambiguous and contested can be established. Using an empirical as well as a theoretical perspective the book explores ontological framings of complexity emphasizing emergence and non-linearity which challenge classic liberal notions of responsibility and moral agency based on the autonomous subject. <em>Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility</em> is perfect for scholars from International Relations Politics Philosophy and Political Economy with an interest in the topical and increasingly popular topics of moral agency and complexity.</p>