Global Justice and Transnational Politics : Essays on the Moral and Political Challenges of Globalization

by Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran P. Cronin (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262541336
• ISBN10: 0262541335
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking and extension of normative political theory. Global Justice and Transnational Politicsencourages and advances that work. The book's first part, "Weak Universalism," contains essays by Amartya Sen and Leif Wenar that offer constructive developments of John Rawls's statement of the principles a liberal polity might reasonably propose to govern its relations with other peoples. The second part, "Strong Universalism and Transnational Commitments," contains essays by Jurgen Habermas, David Luban, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Pogge examining the normative sources and possible types of cross-border commitments. In the third part, "Transnational Politics and National Identities," Habermas discusses the possibility of a democratic political order developing within the institutional framework of the European Union; Thomas McCarthy draws on Kant to show how cosmopolitanism might be reconciled with the legacy of nationalism; and Craig Calhoun tries to retrieve a positive aspect of the tradition of nationalism, namely that it provides large populations with a powerful way of imagining political community across space and time.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Normative Responses to Current Challenges of Global Governance	1	(34)
Ciaran Cronin
Pablo De Greiff
I Weak Universalism	35	(42)
Justice across Borders	37	(16)
Amartya Sen
The Legitimacy of Peoples	53	(24)
Leif Wenar
II Strong Universalism and Transnational Commitments	77	(138)
Intervention and Civilization: Some Unhappy Lessons of the Kosovo War	79	(38)
David Luban
Capabilities and Human Rights	117	(34)
Martha Nussbaum
Human Rights and Human Responsibilities	151	(46)
Thomas Pogge
On Legitimation through Human Rights	197	(18)
Jurgen Habermas
III Transnational Politics and National Identities	215	(98)
The European Nation-State and the Pressures of Globalization	217	(18)
Jurgen Habermas
On Reconciling Cosmopolitan Unity and National Diversity	235	(40)
Thomas McCarthy
Constitutional Patriotism and the Public Sphere: Interests, Identity, and Solidarity in the Integration of Europe	275	(38)
Craig Calhoun
Contributors	313	(2)
Index	315