How to Hold Unjust Structures Responsible in International Relations.
Recent public discourse and political theory center on "structural" approaches of assigning responsibility for injustice in contrast to an "interactional" perspective. The interactional approach corrects discrete harms between agents to return to a just baseline, whereas the structural approach cast...
| Published in: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 573 - 582 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2021
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