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1. Introduction: Making Sense of Childhood in International Relations

Author : J. Marshall Beier

Published in: Discovering Childhood in International Relations

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In a much-cited 1997 contribution to the New Internationalist, moral philosopher Peter Singer described a thought experiment posed to his students in which he asked them to imagine that, along their route to the university, they happened upon a child drowning in a shallow pond.

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Title: Introduction: Making Sense of Childhood in International Relations
Author: J. Marshall Beier
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Discovering Childhood in International Relations
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-46062-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-46063-1

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46063-1_1

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