Justice and Global Politics

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been increasing interest in the global dimensions of a host of public policy issues - issues involving war and peace, terrorism, international law, regulation of commerce, environmental protection, and disparities of wealth, income, and access to medical care. Especially pressing is the question of whether it is possible to formulate principles of justice that are valid not merely within a single society but across national borders. The thirteen essays in this volume explore a range of issues that are central to contemporary discussions of global politics. Written by prominent philosophers, political scientists, economists, and legal theorists, they offer valuable contributions to current debates over the nature of justice and its implications for the development of international law and international institutions.

• Features essays from thirteen prominent philosophers, political scientists, economists, and legal theorists • Explores diverse aspects of global justice from various perspectives • Offers valuable contributions to current debates over the nature of justice

Contents

1. The mirage of global justice Chandran Kukathas; 2. The law of peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributive justice Samuel Freeman; 3. International aid: when giving becomes a vice Neera K. Badhwar; 4. Responsibility and global justice: a social connection model Iris Marion Young; 5. Process values, international law, and justice Paul B. Stephan; 6. What’s wrong with imperialism? Christopher W. Morris; 7. The just war idea: the state of the question James Turner Johnson; 8. Humanitarian military intervention: wars for the end of history? Clifford Owrin; 9. Collateral benefit Michael Blake; 10. The uneven results of institutional changes in central and eastern Europe: the role of culture Svetozar Pejovich; 11. Equality, hierarchy, and global justice James M. Buchanan; 12. Feuding with the past, fearing the future: globalization as cultural metaphor for the struggle between nation-state and world-economy Irving Louis Horowitz; 13. Toward global republican citizenship? Waldemar Hanasz.