Cosmopolitan Justice

by Moellendorf, Darrel

• ISBN13: 9780813365787
• ISBN10: 0813365783
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

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.

Author Biography

Darrel Moellendorf is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: A Tale of Two Tendencies in International Law	1	(6)
Justice in Philosophy and Law	1	(1)
Statism and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary International Law	2	(4)
The Road Ahead	6	(1)
Rawlsian Constructivism and Cosmopolitan Justice	7	(23)
Rawls's Constructivism	8	(8)
Rawls's Justification of Human Rights	9	(1)
Democracy	10	(2)
Egalitarianism	12	(2)
Justice or Expediency	14	(2)
Cosmopolitan Constructivism	16	(2)
Universality and Political Constructivism	18	(8)
The Democratic Conception and the Self-conception of Persons	19	(1)
Justifying the Democratic Conception of Persons	20	(3)
Characterizing the Nature of the Justification	23	(1)
The Truth of the Principles of Justice	24	(2)
Toleration	26	(2)
Conclusion	28	(2)
The Borders of Justice	30	(38)
Duties of Justice	31	(5)
Associative Duties and Duties of Justice	32	(1)
Duties of Justice and Institutions	33	(1)
Associative Duties and Moral Equality	33	(2)
Associative Duties and Attitudes	35	(1)
Global Justice	36	(3)
The Global Association	36	(2)
A Failed Limiting Strategy	38	(1)
The Question of Consistency	39	(5)
Three Objections	44	(3)
Distance	44	(1)
Degree of Association	45	(1)
Moral Triage	46	(1)
Patriotism	47	(4)
Nationalism	51	(3)
Protectionism and Immigration	54	(13)
Protectionism	55	(6)
Immigration	61	(6)
Conclusion	67	(1)
Global Egalitarianism and Imperialism	68	(34)
Skepticism about Duties of Global Distributive Justice	69	(9)
Rawls	70	(2)
Barry	72	(2)
Nardin	74	(1)
Goodin	75	(1)
Walzer	76	(2)
Egalitarian Principles	78	(9)
Liberal Equality	78	(2)
Democratic Equality	80	(1)
Two Objections	81	(2)
Primary Goods, Capabilities, and Gender Inequality	83	(4)
Analyzing Imperialism	87	(5)
Empirical Theories	87	(1)
The Role of Moral Theory	88	(3)
Reparations	91	(1)
Problems of Global Distributive Justice in Development	92	(8)
The Case for Debt Cancellation	92	(5)
The Costs of Global Warming	97	(3)
Conclusion	100	(2)
Cosmopolitan Sovereignty and Justified Intervention	102	(26)
The Concepts of Sovereignty and Intervention	103	(1)
Sovereignty from the Cosmopolitan Point of View	104	(1)
The Statist Conception of Sovereignty	105	(12)
Sovereignty as Dominium	106	(1)
The Right to Share a Common Life Together	107	(1)
Independence	108	(1)
The Constitution of Moral Personality	108	(3)
Tolerance and Pluralism	111	(1)
Relativism	111	(1)
Peace	112	(2)
Self-emancipation and Paternalism	114	(2)
Anti-imperialism	116	(1)
Intervention	117	(8)
Basic Structures and Government Policies	117	(1)
Conditions of Justified Intervention	118	(4)
Permissible versus Obligatory Intervention	122	(3)
Intervention or Isolation	125	(1)
Conclusion	126	(2)
A Cosmopolitan Account of National Self-determination	128	(14)
Cosmopolitanism versus Nationalism	128	(1)
National Self-determination	129	(3)
The Problem of Rational Revision	130	(1)
A Non-nationalist Account of National Self-determination	131	(1)
Who Bears the Right to National Self-determination?	131	(1)
Nonterritorial-Based National Self-determination	132	(2)
Territorial-Based National Self-determination	134	(7)
The Right to Secede	135	(2)
Constraints on the Right to Secede	137	(1)
Two Objections	138	(1)
Two Alternative Accounts of the Right to Secede	139	(1)
General Challenges to the Right to Secede	140	(1)
Conclusion	141	(1)
Political Realism, Pacifism, and the Justice of War	142	(29)
Political Realism or Politics without Morals	143	(5)
Pacifism	148	(10)
Skeptical Pacifism	148	(2)
Normative Pacifism	150	(8)
The Just Use of Military Force	158	(12)
The Statist Account of Just Cause	158	(1)
The Cosmopolitan Account of Just Cause	159	(1)
Imperialism and War	160	(1)
The Gulf War	161	(1)
The Kosovo War	162	(8)
Conclusion	170	(1)
Concluding Remarks: Toward an Egalitarian World Order	171	(6)
Principles, Institutions, and Agents	171	(4)
Cosmopolitan Hope	175	(2)
Notes	177	(28)
Bibliography	205	(12)
Index	217