Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community.
This article investigates how the concept of the international community was rhetorically constructed in public diplomatic discourse and endowed with both agential status and moral authority. It argues that this conceptual innovation emerged during a critical juncture in the 1920s–1930s, amid debate...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2025
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