A Liberal Theory Of International Justice

Author : Andrew Altman,Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191619779

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A Liberal Theory of International Justice by Andrew Altman,Christopher Heath Wellman Pdf

A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual and her rights are placed at center stage insofar as political states are judged legitimate if they adequately protect the human rights of their constituents and respect the rights of all others. Yet, the book argues that legitimate states have a moral right to self-determination and that this right is inherently collective, irreducible to the individual rights of the persons who constitute them. Exploring the implications of these ideas, the book addresses issues pertaining to democracy, secession, international criminal law, armed intervention, political assassination, global distributive justice, and immigration. A number of the positions taken in the book run against the grain of current academic opinion: there is no human right to democracy; separatist groups can be morally entitled to secede from legitimate states; the fact that it is a matter of brute luck whether one is born in a wealthy state or a poorer one does not mean that economic inequalities across states must be minimized or even kept within certain limits; most existing states have no right against armed intervention; and it is morally permissible for a legitimate state to exclude all would-be immigrants.

Author : Andrew Altman,Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : International law
ISBN : 0191721433

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A Liberal Theory of International Justice by Andrew Altman,Christopher Heath Wellman Pdf

This book controversially addresses key topics in the area of international justice, including human rights, democracy, secession, international criminal tribunals, armed intervention, political assassination, global economic inequality, and immigration.

Author : Collin Perillo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781446742464

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Global Justice: A Progressive Theory by Collin Perillo Pdf

Author : Billy Christmas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000370072

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Property and Justice by Billy Christmas Pdf

This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty. It shows that a purely deontological approach to justice can deal with the most complex questions regarding the property system. Moreover, the author considers the economic, ecological, and technological complexities of our real-world property systems. The result is a more conceptually sound account of natural rights and the property system they demand. If we think that liberty should be at the centre of justice, what does that mean for the property system? Economists and lawyers widely agree that a property system must be composed of many different types of property: the kind of private ownership one has over one’s person and immediate possessions, as well as the kinds of common ownership we each have in our local streets, as well as many more. However, theories of property and justice have not given anything approaching an adequate account of the relationship between liberty and any other form of property other than private ownership. It is often thought that a basic commitment to liberty cannot really tell us how to arrange the major complexities of the property system, which diverge from simple private ownership. Property and Justice demonstrates how philosophical rigour coupled with interdisciplinary engagement enables us to think clearly about how to deal with real-world problems. It will be of interest to political philosophers, political theorists, and legal theorists working on property rights and justice.

Author : Kok-Chor Tan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271038594

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Toleration, Diversity, and Global Justice by Kok-Chor Tan Pdf

Author : Frank Garcia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480155

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Trade, Inequality and Justice: Toward a Liberal Theory of Just Trade Law by Frank Garcia Pdf

Recent crises in trade policy and globalization highlight both the problematic role of economic inequality in international trade law and the shortcomings of contemporary, largely economic, approaches to this problem and to international trade law generally. This book argues for an alternative approach to the problem of trade and inequality, as a problem of justice. Drawing on political and moral theory and legal philosophy, the author develops a Rawlsian model for justice as fairness in international trade law. This model highlights the important normative role of the principle of special and differential treatment, which can justify economic inequality by making the wealthy markets of developed states work to the benefit of smaller economies, thus satisfying the difference principle as applied to international economic relations. Applying this model to contemporary trade law, the author offers concrete proposals for modifying existing special and differential treatment doctrine, and suggests ”second generation” policies for the problem of inequality once special and differential treatment is either fully implemented or rendered obsolete. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : Gideon Calder,Edward Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351749862

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Liberalism and Social Justice by Gideon Calder,Edward Garrett Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: Bringing oes liberalism have either the theoretical capacity or the political durability to provide for social justice, particularly given the challenges of the new millennium? From a diverse array of disciplinary, cultural and critical perspectives, the contributors to this timely and incisive collection of essays cover ground ranging from the philosophical adequacy of liberalism’s central tenets, to the treatment of minority and alternative cultures in contemporary Europe, to the future of welfare provision, to the continued tenability of traditional ideological distinctions and labels amid the social conditions and demands of the new millennium. The book will be of particular interest to philosophers, political scientists and social and legal theorists - and to anyone with a general interest in the present and future horizons of social justice in theory and practice.

Author : Katrina Forrester
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691216751

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In the Shadow of Justice by Katrina Forrester Pdf

"In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism--a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state--became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar United States and Britain. In the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Rawls's A Theory of Justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophy. Using archival sources, Forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among American antistatists and British egalitarians. She traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the 1960s and '70s and beyond. In these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right--from the New International Economic Order to the rise of the New Right. These thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics. Recasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, In the Shadow of Justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limits."--

Author : A. Förster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137452665

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Peace, Justice and International Order by A. Förster Pdf

How can fair cooperation and a stable peace be reached in the international realm? Peace, Justice and International Order discusses this question in the light of John Rawls' The Law of Peoples, offers a new approach to Rawls' international theory and contributes to the discourse on international peace and justice.

Author : Bruce Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300158076

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Social Justice in the Liberal State by Bruce Ackerman Pdf

An original and compelling vision of a just society“A ‘new view’ of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will ‘challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy.’ ”—The New York Times Book ReviewWinner of a Certificate of Merit for the American Bar Association's 1981 Gavel Award for outstanding public serviceFirst published in 1980 and continuously in print ever since, Bruce Ackerman's classic Social Justice in the Liberal State offers a new foundation for liberal political theory— a world in which each of us may live his or her own life in his or her own way, without denying the same right to others. Full of provocative discussions of issues ranging from education to abortion, it makes fascinating reading for anyone concerned with the future of the liberal democratic state. “Professor Ackerman has tackled age-old problems of social justice with the refreshing technique of a series of dialogues in which the proponent of a position must either confront his opponent with an answer, constrained by the three principles of rationality, consistency, and neutrality, or submit to a checkmate. The author’s ability to combine earthiness with extreme subtlety in framing the dialogues has produced a novel, mind-stretching book.”—Henry J. Friendly, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit“What limits should we place on genetic manipulation? How many children should we have? How should we regulate abortions and adoptions? What rights does the community have, what rights do parents have in the education of children? What rights do children have? What resources must we leave to future generations? To see all these as questions of distributive justice is to connect them in a new way (and to make) a significant contribution.”—Michael Walzer, The New Republic “The breadth of the attack on the fundamental issues of man and society is impressive.”—Foreign Affairs

Author : B. Jahn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137348432

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Liberal Internationalism by B. Jahn Pdf

This study provides an original conception of liberalism that accounts for its internal contradictions and explains the current crisis of liberal internationalism. Examining the disjuncture between liberal theory and practice, it offers a firmer grasp on the historical role of liberalism in world politics.

Author : Mark D. Gismondi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135980993

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Ethics, Liberalism and Realism in International Relations by Mark D. Gismondi Pdf

This book explores the complex issue of international ethics in the two dominant schools of thought in international relations; Liberalism and Realism. Both theories suffer from an inability to integrate the ethical and pragmatic dimensions of foreign policy. Liberal policy makers often suffer from moral blindness and a tendency toward coercion in the international arena, whilst realists tend to be epistemic sceptics, incorporating Nietzsche’s thought, directly or indirectly, into their theories. Mark Gismondi seeks to resolve the issues in these two approaches by adopting a covenant based approach, as described by Daniel Elazar’s work on the covenant tradition in politics, to international relations theory. The covenant approach has three essential principles: policy makers must have a sense of realism about the existence of evil and its political consequences power must be shared and limited liberty requires a basis in shared values. Ethics, Realism and Liberalism in International Relations will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, philosophy, ethics and international relations.

Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042605

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A Theory of Justice by John RAWLS Pdf

Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Author : Robin Attfield,Barry Wilkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134914869

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International Justice and the Third World by Robin Attfield,Barry Wilkins Pdf

International Justice and the Third World vindicates belief in global or universal justice, and explores both liberal and Marxist grounds for such belief. It also investigates the presuppositions of belief in development, and relates it to sustainability, to environmentalism, and to the obligation to cancel Third World debt.

Author : Peter Sutch
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415232746

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Ethics, Justice, and International Relations by Peter Sutch Pdf

This topical and timely book critically explores contemporary liberal international relations theory. Essential reading for students and scholars in politics, international relations, political theory and ethics.