Between Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty Studies in Global Justice

by Tinnevelt, Ronald; Verschraegen, Gert

• ISBN13: 9781403939913
• ISBN10: 1403939918
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Over the last few decades national boundaries have become less and less important. Between Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty explores how philosophers and political theorists have recast principles of justice and human rights in the light of the challenges posed by globalization. It discusses important ethical issues that arise at a global level and addresses such questions as whether human rights and sovereignty can ever be reconciled, how just political institutions can be developed in a world without boundaries and how humanitarian intervention can be justified.

Author Biography

RONALD TINNEVELT is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders. He is affiliated to the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium and is involved in the IAP research project 'Theory of the Norm and Democratic Governance'. His main research interests include human rights, democracy, sovereignty and justice. He is co-editor of John Rawls (2002), De multiculturele samenleving in conflict (2005) and Internationale Rechtvaardigheid (2005).

GERT VERSCHRAEGEN is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and is affiliated to the Department of Sociology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include political theory, theoretical sociology and social policy. He is co-editor of John Rawls (2002), De verleiding van de Ethiek (2003), Internationale Rechtvaardigheid (2005), and co-author of Enabling Social Europe (2005).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Distributive Justice

Global Distributive Justice

States, Individuals, and Equality

Do Rich Countries have a Negative Duty to Fight Global Poverty?

Global Distributive Justice and the Environment

Justice for Africa

Cultural Diversity and Liberalism

Liberalism and Cultural Diversity: Some Challenges

Liberal Contribution to a Universal Ethic

The Liberal Concept of Political Secularism

Rights of Culture, Rights of Conscience

Emergent Cosmopolitanism: Indigenous Peoples and International Law

Sovereignty, Human Rights and Democracy

Human Rights Protection in a World of Sovereign States

Human Rights, Justice and Anarchy in International Relations

Human Rights as Global Participatory Entitlements

Protecting Human Rights: Transnational Governance or World State?

How Much Democracy does Global Constitutionalism Need?

Ethical Foreign Policy and the Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention

Perspectives on Global Justice: Norms, Structures, Processes and Context

Good International Citizenship

The Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention

Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and 'Preventive Non-Intervention'

Problems of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

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