Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Mirage of Global Justice
- The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice
- International Aid: When Giving Becomes a Vice
- Responsibility and Global Justice: A Social Connection Model
- Process Values, International Law, and Justice
- What's Wrong with Imperialism?
- The Just War Idea: The State of the Question
- Humanitarian Military Intervention: Wars for the End of History?
- Collateral Benefit
- The Uneven Results of Institutional Changes in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Culture
- Equality, Hierarchy, and Global Justice
- Feuding with the Past, Fearing the Future: Globalization as Cultural Metaphor for the Struggle between Nation-State and World-Economy
- Toward Global Republican Citizenship?
- Index
The Mirage of Global Justice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Mirage of Global Justice
- The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice
- International Aid: When Giving Becomes a Vice
- Responsibility and Global Justice: A Social Connection Model
- Process Values, International Law, and Justice
- What's Wrong with Imperialism?
- The Just War Idea: The State of the Question
- Humanitarian Military Intervention: Wars for the End of History?
- Collateral Benefit
- The Uneven Results of Institutional Changes in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Culture
- Equality, Hierarchy, and Global Justice
- Feuding with the Past, Fearing the Future: Globalization as Cultural Metaphor for the Struggle between Nation-State and World-Economy
- Toward Global Republican Citizenship?
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Theories of global justice address two main issues. First, what would a just distribution of benefits and burdens across the world look like? Second, what sorts of institutions would be required to secure such a just distribution? Many other related questions inevitably arise when these problems are addressed. Perhaps the most notable is how to establish such institutions given the diversity of sovereign nations and the fact of global inequalities of wealth and power. For many, these questions are urgent because we live in a world in which millions live in desperate poverty. They are salient not only because many people enjoy great wealth but also because the disparity in riches may itself be the product of unjust global institutions. On this view, it might be said, justice is the first virtue of global institutions. Institutions, no matter how efficient and well-arranged, must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.
For some theories, however, the issue of global justice has a wider scope. The protection of human rights generally, it is argued, is a matter of justice. Just institutions would ensure not only that the distribution of benefits and burdens was morally justifiable but also that people were secure against the predations of despots and warlords. The security of people's individual liberties and political rights is also a matter of justice. To establish global justice requires institutions that secure human rights broadly understood.
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- Justice and Global Politics , pp. 1 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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