Communication, Legitimation and Morality in Modern Politics

Uriel Abulof is a Senior Lecturer of Politics, teaching at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and Princeton University, USA. He is the author of The Mortality and Morality of Nations (2015) and Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (2016), which won Israel’s best academic book award (Bahat Prize). His articles have appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Political Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Ethnic and Racial Studies and International Politics. Markus Kornprobst holds the Chair in International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria. He previously taught at the School of Public Policy at University College London and Magdalen College at Oxford University, UK. His research appears in leading journals in the discipline, such as International Organization, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, and Millennium. He is the author of Irredentism in European Politics and co-editor of Metaphors of Globalization.

Introduction: the politics of public justification Uriel Abulof and Markus Kornprobst 1. A psychological perspective on moral reasoning, processes of decision-making, and moral resistance Elliot Turiel 2. Conscientious politics and Israel’s moral dilemmas Uriel Abulof 3. The fusion of the private and public sectors Amitai Etzioni 4. Empirical legitimation analysis in International Relations: how to learn from the insights – and avoid the mistakes – of research in EU studies Achim Hurrelmann 5. The public valuation of religion in global health governance: spiritual health and the faith factor Tine Hanrieder 6. Arguing deep ideational change Markus Kornprobst and Martin Senn 7. Caveat: addressing public justification as an empirical phenomenon Liah Greenfeld 8. Unpacking public justification Uriel Abulof and Markus Kornprobst