On global justice / Mathias Risse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risse, Mathias, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internationalism.

Distributive justice.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among all human beings. On Global Justice shifts the terms of this debate and shows how both views are unsatisfactory. Stressing humanity's collective ownership of the earth, Mathias Risse offers a new theory of global distributive justice--what he calls pluralist internationalism--where in different contexts, different principles of justice apply. Arguing that statists and cosmopolitans seek overarching answers to problems that vary too widely for one single justice relationship, Risse explores who should have how much of what we all need and care about, ranging from income and rights to spaces and resources of the earth. He acknowledges that especially demanding redistributive principles apply among those who share a country, but those who share a country also have obligations of justice to those who do not because of a universal humanity, common political and economic orders, and a linked global trading system. Risse's inquiries about ownership of the earth give insights into immigration, obligations to future generations, and obligations arising from climate change. He considers issues such as fairness in trade, responsibilities of the WTO, intellectual property rights, labor rights, whether there ought to be states at all, and global inequality, and he develops a new foundational theory of human rights.

Contents:

The grounds of justice

"Un pouvoir ordinaire": shared membership in a state as a ground of

Justice

Internationalism versus statism and globalism: contemporary debates

What follows from our common humanity? : the institutional stance, human rights, and nonrelationism

Hugo Grotius revisited : collective ownership of the Earth and global public reason

"Our sole habitation" : a contemporary approach to collective ownership of the earth

Toward a contingent derivation of human rights

Proportionate use : immigration and original ownership of the Earth

"But the earth abideth for ever" : obligations to future generations

Climate change and ownership of the atmosphere

Human rights as membership rights in the global order

Arguing for human rights : essential pharmaceuticals

Arguing for human rights : labor rights as human rights

Justice and trade

The way we live now

"Imagine there's no countries" : a reply to John Lennon

Justice and accountability : the state

Justice and accountability : the World Trade Organization.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613852427

9781283539975

1283539977

9781400845507

1400845505

OCLC:

808346267