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'Amoureux deftly enriches the intellectual terrain on ethical reflexivity not merely as scholarly thought, but as a practice for politics. This book is an absolute must read for anyone who wants to understand how identity, subjectivity, and agency are foundational to contemporary thinking on ethics and morality in global politics.' - Elizabeth Dauphinee, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto 'The strength of Jack Amoureux's important book lies in its combination of a sophisticated account of Aristotelian reflexivity and the figure of the global ethical agent (phronimos) with a close, micro-political, reading of hard cases emerging from the Rwanda genocide and the War on Terror. The author does not simply preach ethical reflexivity, he practices what he preaches' - Chris Brown, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK

'Amoureux deftly enriches the intellectual terrain on ethical reflexivity not merely as scholarly thought, but as a practice for politics. This book is an absolute must read for anyone who wants to understand how identity, subjectivity, and agency are foundational to contemporary thinking on ethics and morality in global politics.' - Elizabeth Dauphinee, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada 'The strength of Jack Amoureux's important book lies in its combination of a sophisticated account of Aristotelian reflexivity and the figure of the global ethical agent (phronimos) with a close, micro-political, reading of hard cases emerging from the Rwanda genocide and the War on Terror. The author does not simply preach ethical reflexivity, he practices what he preaches' - Chris Brown, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK 'International Relations desperately needs a book like this right now, with a general malaise and cynicism emerging after the disastrous 2000s regarding how to approach global ethical dilemmas. The result has been either intellectual nihilism or a guarded use of modest proposals towards ethics. Jack Amoureux's forceful call for ethical reflexivity breaks through this fog, charting a path for scholars to recognize not only their reflexive roles in the construction of global politics but how to additionally analyze the dilemmas and practices of global politics in their work. Examining drones, torture, and genocide, ethical reflexivity emerges as a theoretically sophisticated approach with micropolitical implications. This book is just as much an inspiration as a theoretical contribution in a time when IR theory desperately needs the former to make the latter possible.' - Brent J. Steele, Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Utah, USA 'Amoureux deftly enriches the intellectual terrain on ethical reflexivity not merely as scholarly thought, but as a practice for politics. This book is an absolute must read for anyone who wants to understand how identity, subjectivity, and agency are foundational to contemporary thinking on ethics and morality in global politics.' - Elizabeth Dauphinee, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada 'The strength of Jack Amoureux's important book lies in its combination of a sophisticated account of Aristotelian reflexivity and the figure of the global ethical agent (phronimos) with a close, micro-political, reading of hard cases emerging from the Rwanda genocide and the War on Terror. The author does not simply preach ethical reflexivity, he practices what he preaches' - Chris Brown, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK 'International Relations desperately needs a book like this right now, with a general malaise and cynicism emerging after the disastrous 2000s regarding how to approach global ethical dilemmas. The result has been either intellectual nihilism or a guarded use of modest proposals towards ethics. Jack Amoureux's forceful call for ethical reflexivity breaks through this fog, charting a path for scholars to recognize not only their reflexive roles in the construction of global politics but how to additionally analyze the dilemmas and practices of global politics in their work. Examining drones, torture, and genocide, ethical reflexivity emerges as a theoretically sophisticated approach with micropolitical implications. This book is just as much an inspiration as a theoretical contribution in a time when IR theory desperately needs the former to make the latter possible.' - Brent J. Steele, Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Utah, USA

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Jack L Amoureux is a Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He previously taught at American University in Washington, DC.

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