Rawls's Law of Peoples A Realistic Utopia?

by Martin, Rex; Reidy, David A.

• ISBN13: 9781405135306
• ISBN10: 1405135301
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his controversial last book, The Law of Peoples.

Author Biography

Rex Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. His most recent books are A System of Rights (1997) and a revised edition of R.G. Collingwood's An Essay on Metaphysics (2002).

David Reidy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of many articles and chapters in political philosophy and the philosophy of law and on Rawls in particular. He is the co-editor, with Mortimer Sellers, of Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (2005).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	x
Preface	xv
List of Abbreviations	xviii
Part I Background and Structure	1	(56)
Introduction: Reading Rawls's The Law of Peoples	3	(16)
Rex Martin
David A. Reidy
Uniting What Right Permits with What Interest Prescribes: Rawls's Law of Peoples in Context	19	(19)
David Boucher
Rawls's Peoples	38	(19)
Philip Pettit
Part II Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Universalism: Questions of Priority and Coherence	57	(58)
Cultural Imperialism and `Democratic Peace'	59	(17)
Catherine Audard
The Problem of Decent Peoples	76	(19)
Kok Chor Tan
Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian	95	(20)
Leif Wenar
Part III On Human Rights	115	(74)
Human Rights as Moral Claim Rights	117	(17)
Wilfried Hinsch
Markus Stepanians
Rawls's Narrow Doctrine of Human Rights	134	(16)
Alistair M. Macleod
Taking the Human out of Human Rights	150	(19)
Allen Buchanan
Political Authority and Human Rights	169	(20)
David A. Reidy
Part IV On Global Economic Justice	189	(72)
Collective Responsibility and International Inequality in The Law of Peoples	191	(15)
David Miller
Do Rawls's Two Theories of Justice Fit Together?	206	(20)
Thomas Pogge
Rawls on International Distributive Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look	226	(17)
Rex Martin
Distributive Justice and The Law of Peoples	243	(18)
Samuel Freeman
Part V On Liberal Democratic Foreign Policy	261	(57)
Are Human Rights Mainly Implemented by Intervention?	263	(15)
James W. Nickel
A Human Right to Democracy? Legitimacy and Intervention	278	(21)
Alyssa R. Bernstein
Justice, Stability, and Toleration in a Federation of Well-Ordered Peoples	299	(19)
Andreas Follesdal
Index	318