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State Prerogatives, Civil Society, and Liberalization: The Paradoxes of the Late Twentieth Century in the Third World1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

Mahmood Monshipouri
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Abstract

The end of the Cold War has left the international system in a state of paradox, most prominently in the growing conflict between the legal-political global order and the growth of civil society. Monshipouri identifies and discusses three paradoxes that exemplify this central conflict: state-building versus democratization; economic liberalization versus political liberalization; and human rights versus state sovereignty. In discussing each of these paradoxes, the author describes the difficulties and ethical questions involved in making economic and political reforms without the necessary means and institutional resources. Monshipouri concludes that in order to manage such dilemmas, Third World states must find a delicate balance between global economic reforms and an ethically sensitive international political and legal order.

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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 11 , March 1997 , pp. 233 - 252
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1997

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