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The age of apology : facing up to the past / ed. by Mark Gibney ...

Gibney, Mark, 1952-

Philadelphia, Pa. : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

VII, 333 S.

Englisch

Introduction: apologies and the west / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gibney. Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. BilderApology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson -- Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman -- Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jönsson.

Part II: Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright FlemingThe university and the slaves: apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy -- The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted / Pablo de Greiff -- Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada / Matt James -- Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process / Meredith Gibbs.

Part III: International apologies of states. State apolgies under U.S. hegemony / Carlos A. Parodi"Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo / Paul Kerstens -- Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" / Leonard Jamfa -- Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo -- Colonialism, slavery, and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective / Peter Baehr -- Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors / Elizabeth S. Dahl.

Part IV: Apologies by non-state actors. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II / Michael R. MarrusRethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa.

Part V: The war on terror. Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney and Niklaus SteinerThe fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks.

Introduction: apologies and the west / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gibney. Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. Bilder -- Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson -- Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman -- Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jönsson

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: The age of apology] / Quinn, Joanna R.

0-8122-4033-2 ; 978-0-8122-4033-7

9780812240337

557971284

OCoLC: 230223297     

OCoLC: 180254858 (aus SWB)     

MK 3800  | CC 7800      Ähnliche Literatur

JC580

327.17 ; 303.6/9

FIV Notation: RS: Ohne direkten Regionalbezug ; SB01: Internationale(s) Politik/System / Internationale Beziehungen/Prozesse

Basisklassifikation: 89.70 (Internationale Beziehungen: Allgemeines)

SSG-Nummer(n): 3,6; 2,1

*Entschuldigung ; Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

*Westliche Welt ; Kolonialismus ; Menschenrechtsverletzung ; Entschuldigung ; Nichtwestliche Welt ; Indigenes Volk ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

*Westliche Welt ; Wiedergutmachung ; Wahrheitskommission ; Internationales Recht ; Internationale Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

GND-Schlagwörter: Internationale Politik ; Politisches Verhalten ; Internationales Recht ; Menschenrechtsverletzung ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Sklaverei ; Kolonialismus ; Apartheid ; Versöhnung

FIV-Themen: Internationale Beziehungen ; Verhalten in den internationalen Beziehungen ; Internationales Recht ; Menschenrechtsverletzung ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Sklaverei ; Kolonialismus ; Apartheid ; Versöhnung

FIV-Aspekte: Kanada ; Neuseeland ; Vereinigte Staaten ; Belgien ; Ruanda ; Kongo (Brazzaville) ; Deutschland ; Namibia ; Niederlande ; Japan ; Südafrikanische Republik ; Terrorismusbekämpfung ; Golfkrieg <2003>

LOC-SH: Truth commissions ; Apologizing -- Political aspects ; Civilization, Western -- Historiography ; Reparations for historical injustices

Introduction: apologies and the west / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gibney. Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. Bilder -- Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson -- Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman -- Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jönsson

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Part II: Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming -- The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy -- The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted / Pablo de Greiff -- Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada / Matt James -- Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process / Meredith Gibbs

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