Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law

by Edited by Lukas H. Meyer

• ISBN13: 9780521199490
• ISBN10: 0521199492
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Do states or individuals stand under duties of international justice to people who live elsewhere and to other states? How are we to assess the legitimacy of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Security Council? Should we support reforms of international institutions and how should we go about assessing alternative proposals of such reforms? The book brings together leading scholars of public international law, jurisprudence and international relations, political philosophers and political theorists to explore the central notions of international legitimacy and global justice. The essays examine how these notions are related and how understanding the relationships will help us comparatively assess the validity of proposals for the reform of international institutions and public international law.

Author Biography

Lukas H. Meyer is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Graz Department of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Legitimacy, Justice and public international law. Three perspectives on the debate	p. 1
The legitimacy of global governance institutions	p. 29
Institutionalising global demoi-cracy	p. 58
The responsibilities and legitimacy of economic international institutions	p. 92
Do international organisations play favourites? An impartialist account	p. 123
'Victors' justice'? Historic injustice and the legitimacy of international law	p. 163
International law and global justice	p. 186
Global justice: Problems of a cosmopolitan account	p. 207
The responsibility to protect human rights	p. 232
The threat of violence and of new military force as a challenge to international public law	p. 252
Forcing a people to be free	p. 270
Index	p. 311
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