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| Title: | Global Justice, Global Institutions
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| Series: | (CJP Supplementary, Volume 31) |
| Author: | Daniel Weinstock (ed) |
| ISBN: | 0919491316 : 9780919491311 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 386 |
| Weight: | .39 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Calgary Press - February 2007 |
| List Price: | 26.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | PHILOSOPHY |
Defining the principles of justice that ought to govern the global economic & political sphere is one of the most urgent tasks that contemporary political philosophers face. But they must also contribute to working through the institutional implications of these principles. How might principles of global justice be realised? Must the institutions that aim to implement them be transnational, or can global justice be attained within the context of the state system? Can institutions of democratic self-governance be imagined beyond the nation-state? These are just some of the questions that still face political philosophers even when issues of abstract principle have been addressed. This volume establishes a dialogue between philosophers working at all levels of abstraction. Some of the authors are concerned with the grounds & scope of the obligations that bind the citizens & governments of rich countries to those of poorer nations. But many examine the question of how these obligations can be satisfied, both within existing institutional frameworks & beyond. Together their essays constitute a major contribution to the advancement of both the theoretical understanding & the practical requirements of global justice.
Introduction; Institutions with Global Scope: Moral Cosmopolitanism & Political Practice. Cosmopolitanism, Democracy & Distributive Justice. Institutions for Global Justice. Global Distributive Justice, Entitlement & Deserts. Global Distributive Justice: An Egalitarian Perspective. Cosmopolitan Impartiality & Patriotic Partiality. Rawls on Global Distributive Justice: A Defence. Constituting Humanity: Democracy, Human Rights & Political Community. The Basic Structure as Object: Institutions & Humanitarian Concern. Cosmopolitan Luck Egalitarianism & the Greenhouse Effect. Domination & Destitution in an Unjust World. Case Study: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Convention on Biological Diversity: From Realism to Cosmopolitanism.
