Sustainable Diplomacy: Ecology, Religion and Ethics in Muslim-Christian Relations

By David Joseph Wellman

Book Overview

Drawing on a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Diplomacy is a highly constructive work. Set in the context of modern Moroccan-Spanish relations, this text is a direct critique of realism as it is practiced in modern diplomacy. Proposing a new eco-centric approach to relations between nation-states and bioregions, Wellman presents the case for Ecological Realism, an undergirding philosophy for conducting a diplomacy which values the role of popular religions, ecological histories, and the consumption and waste patterns of national populations. Sustainable Diplomacy is thus a means of building relations not only between elites but also between people on the ground, as they together face the real possibility of global ecological destruction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349528064
• ISBN13: 9781349528066
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"