Word: hobbesian
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Current international human rights law is not entirely ambiguos, holds that human rights affairs are not solely a domestic concern. It is inevitably limited, however, by the lack of an effective enforcement mechanism in an Hobbesian world of sovereign states. For the U.S., the necessary infusion of ethics into international relations requires a recognition that geopolitical gains and losses for each superpower are a fact of life in a dynamic, interrelated world...
Chayes criticized the American boycott because it renounced the principle of community judgement. When the United States sets up a "Hobbesian world, where we are our own judges [of international conduct], then we must grant that right to all," Chayes said...
...could cite the Texas artist John Alexander, 40. Despite occasional derailments into a sort of demonic cartooning, Alexander's spiky, haunted style is one of intense graphic vitality. He has revived cliches of ferocious nature and made them work in an absolutely authentic way. His Hobbesian sense of the world, the battle of all against all, extends from the swamps of Louisiana (populated by a tangled bestiary of paranoid deer, coons, foxes, bright-eyed, indifferent herons and fish-chomping alligators, glaring at one another like bikers on Methedrine) to the boardrooms of the Sunbelt. Thanks to a Baptist background...
Abram Chayes, Frankfurter Professor of Law and an authority on international law, called "Living with Nuclear Weapons" a "lucid and fair statement. I think it will be a standard book on these issues." He added that he had criticized early drafts as "over-Hobbesian," but the authors later assured him that "that had been toned down...
...unjust that the blame for the atrocity hailed down upon Israelis alone. The Christian militiamen who actually did the evil work were rarely mentioned. Presumably, that kind of Hobbesian savagery comes so naturally to them that it hardly bears remarking. There was a strange compliment concealed here. The world accused Israel so violently in part because the massacre profoundly violated Israel's own moral standards. Some of the vitriol, too, was just anti-Semitism dressed up to look like righteous indignation...