Cosmopolitanism in Context: Perspectives from International Law and Political Theory

by Edited by Roland Pierik , Wouter Werner

• ISBN13: 9780521191944
• ISBN10: 0521191947
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral concern for all survive the marriage between cosmopolitanism and institutional power? What are the effects of such bureaucratisation of cosmopolitan ideals? This volume examines the strained relationship between cosmopolitanism as a moral standard and the legal institutions in which cosmopolitan norms and principles are to be implemented. Five areas of global concern are analysed: environmental protection, economic regulation, peace and security, the fight against international crimes and migration.

Author Biography

Roland Pierik is Associate professor in Political and Legal Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, where he researches political and legal philosophy and public policy. Wouter Werner is Professor of Public international Law at vu University, Amsterdam, where his main fields of interest are international legal theory, the interplay between international law and international politics, and conflict and security law.

Table of Contents

Cosmopolitanism in context: an introduction	p. 1
Environmental protection
Human rights and global climate change	p. 19
Global environmental law and global institutions: a system lacking "good process"	p. 45
World Trade Organization
The WTO/GATS Mode 4, international labor migration regimes and global justice	p. 75
Incentives for pharmaceutical research: must they exclude the poor from advanced medicines?	p. 106
Collective security and intervention
Cosmopolitan legitimacy and UN collective security	p. 129
Enforcing cosmopolitan justice: the problem of intervention	p. 155
International Criminal Court
Rawls's Law of Peoples and the International Criminal Court	p. 179
An ideal becoming real? The International Criminal Court and the limits of the cosmopolitan vision of justice	p. 195
International migration
Is immigration a human right?	p. 221
A distributive approach to migration law: or the convergence of communitarianism, libertarianism, and the status quo	p. 249
Conclusion
Can cosmopolitanism survive institutionalization?	p. 277
Index	p. 290
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