Core Ethics Vol. 3（2007） Articles International Relations After Unipolarity and Deconstruction

(This is written mainly in the context of International Relations. It should be noted that International Relations is not an entertainment industry and one is not supposed to come up with new fashions every time he or she writes or presents something, certainly not in those parts concerning a theoretical study or structural analysis; some of my views expressed in this writing have been presented previously in the last decade in several occasions and I re-present them here in a revised form since I consider them to be still valid theoretically and as structural analyses. I express my thanks to all the people who commented on my previous presentations.) In this brief article, I first point out the vital importance of ethical and political values in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century and a need for at least a minimum degree of global normative consensus. But I also argue that, since deconstruction has put into doubt the meaning of “human ” that is supposed to be the very agent of values and norms, IR (International Relations) researches about those values and the possibility of a global minimum normative consensus cannot confine themselves within the discipline but must face this deconstructive challenge by expanding into and integrating with philosophy. I draw an initial sketch of a post-deconstructive IR theory and a cosmopolitan defence of human rights for both developing and developed worlds as the global minimum normative consensus. Post-unipolar worl