Cosmopolitan justice / Darrel Moellendorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moellendorf, Darrel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice.

Internationalism.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2002.

Summary:

Increasing global economic integration and recent military interventions in the name of human rights have forced questions of global justice into political discussions. In presenting a systematic account of global duties of justice, Cosmopolitan Justice departs from many contemporary accounts that take the scope of justice to be limited to the state or nation. Is the unequal distribution of wealth across the globe just? Are the most indebted countries obliged to pay back their loans to international financial institutions? Does respecting state sovereignty prohibit intervening in the affairs of other states? What is the moral basis of international law? Cosmopolitan Justice takes on these questions, and much more.

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Tale of Two Tendencies in International Law 1

Justice in Philosophy and Law 1

Statism and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary International Law 2

The Road Ahead 6

2 Rawlsian Constructivism and Cosmopolitan Justice 7

Rawls's Constructivism 8

Rawls's Justification of Human Rights 9

Democracy 10

Egalitarianism 12

Justice or Expediency 14

Cosmopolitan Constructivism 16

Universality and Political Constructivism 18

The Democratic Conception and the Self-conception of Persons 19

Justifying the Democratic Conception of Persons 20

Characterizing the Nature of the Justification 23

The Truth of the Principles of Justice 24

Toleration 26

3 The Borders of Justice 30

Duties of Justice 31

Associative Duties and Duties of Justice 32

Duties of Justice and Institutions 33

Associative Duties and Moral Equality 33

Associative Duties and Attitudes 35

Global Justice 36

The Global Association 36

A Failed Limiting Strategy 38

The Question of Consistency 39

Three Objections 44

Distance 44

Degree of Association 45

Moral Triage 46

Patriotism 47

Nationalism 51

Protectionism and Immigration 54

Protectionism 55

Immigration 61

4 Global Egalitarianism and Imperialism 68

Skepticism about Duties of Global Distributive Justice 69

Rawls 70

Barry 72

Nardin 74

Goodin 75

Walzer 76

Egalitarian Principles 78

Liberal Equality 78

Democratic Equality 80

Two Objections 81

Primary Goods, Capabilities, and Gender Inequality 83

Analyzing Imperialism 87

Empirical Theories 87

The Role of Moral Theory 88

Reparations 91

Problems of Global Distributive Justice in Development 92

The Case for Debt Cancellation 92

The Costs of Global Warming 97

5 Cosmopolitan Sovereignty and Justified Intervention 102

The Concepts of Sovereignty and Intervention 103

Sovereignty from the Cosmopolitan Point of View 104

The Statist Conception of Sovereignty 105

Sovereignty as Dominium 106

The Right to Share a Common Life Together 107

Independence 108

The Constitution of Moral Personality 108

Tolerance and Pluralism 111

Relativism 111

Peace 112

Self-emancipation and Paternalism 114

Anti-imperialism 116

Intervention 117

Basic Structures and Government Policies 117

Conditions of Justified Intervention 118

Permissible versus Obligatory Intervention 122

Intervention or Isolation 125

6 A Cosmopolitan Account of National Self-determination 128

Cosmopolitanism versus Nationalism 128

National Self-determination 129

The Problem of Rational Revision 130

A Non-nationalist Account of National Self-determination 131

Who Bears the Right to National Self-determination? 131

Nonterritorial-Based National Self-determination 132

Territorial-Based National Self-determination 134

The Right to Secede 135

Constraints on the Right to Secede 137

Two Objections 138

Two Alternative Accounts of the Right to Secede 139

General Challenges to the Right to Secede 140

7 Political Realism, Pacifism, and the Justice of War 142

Political Realism or Politics without Morals 143

Pacifism 148

Skeptical Pacifism 148

Normative Pacifism 150

The Just Use of Military Force 158

The Statist Account of Just Cause 158

The Cosmopolitan Account of Just Cause 159

Imperialism and War 160

The Gulf War 161

The Kosovo War 162

8 Concluding Remarks: Toward an Egalitarian World Order 171

Principles, Institutions, and Agents 171

Cosmopolitan Hope 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

ISBN:

0813365562

0813365783

OCLC:

48033067