Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account

Contents......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
I. Theory......Page 18
1.1. Introduction......Page 20
1.2. Focus for the Book and Two Kinds of Sceptic......Page 21
1.3. Concise Overview of the Contents......Page 22
1.4. The Cosmopolitan as a Citizen of the World......Page 25
1.5. Globalization and Global Justice......Page 26
1.6. Some Varieties of Cosmopolitanism......Page 28
1.7. Cosmopolitan Justice......Page 30
1.8. Reconciling Cosmopolitanism with Other Commitments......Page 31
2.2. Rawls’s Law of Peoples......Page 36
2.3. Some Critical Responses to Rawls’s Law of Peoples......Page 41
2.4. Defences of Rawls’s Law of Peoples......Page 47
2.5. Critics Versus Defenders: The State of Play......Page 53
3. A Cosmopolitan Model of Global Justice: The Basic Framework......Page 62
3.1. Should Cosmopolitans Support a Global Difference Principle?......Page 63
3.2. Can the Ideal of (Fair) Equality of Opportunity be Extended Globally?......Page 75
3.3. Some Important Clarifications Concerning Needs, Capabilities, and Human Rights......Page 80
3.4. Concluding Remarks......Page 89
4. Global Governance and the Nationalist Challenge: What Does Authentic Democracy Require?......Page 101
4.1. Global Governance: Further Considerations in Support......Page 103
4.2. Fairness in Global Governance Arrangements......Page 106
4.3. Concluding Remarks......Page 126
II. Moving from Theory to Public Policy: Closing the Gap between Theory and Practice......Page 132
Overview......Page 134
5. Global Poverty, Taxation, and Global Justice......Page 136
5.1. Introduction to Some Key Issues......Page 137
5.2. Some Problems with our Taxation and Accounting Arrangements......Page 142
5.3. Dues to Protect Global Public Goods and Tackle Global Poverty......Page 147
5.4. Summary of Main Conclusions......Page 156
6. Basic Liberties and Global Justice......Page 168
6.1. What is So Special about Basic Liberties?......Page 169
6.2. The Current Situation: Are People’s Basic Liberties Well Protected Today?......Page 173
6.3. Obstacles to Freedom: Some Analysis......Page 175
6.4. Internal Mechanisms to Protect Basic Liberties: The Crucial Role of Freedom of the Press......Page 178
6.5. Provisions to Secure More Justice......Page 183
6.6. Summary and Concluding Remarks......Page 186
7.2. Two Important Alleged Tensions......Page 189
7.3. The Moral Argument......Page 191
7.4. The Report by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty......Page 198
7.5. Closing the Gaps between What is Morally Desirable and the Current Situation, and Concluding Remarks......Page 202
8.1. Introduction......Page 207
8.2. Some Realistic Options for Here and Now......Page 211
8.3. Summary of Findings and Conclusions......Page 227
9.1. Introduction......Page 237
9.2. The Link between Free Trade and Poverty Reduction......Page 238
9.3. Improving Trade Arrangements, Negotiations, and the Goals of Economic Justice......Page 244
9.4. The Global Economic Order, Improving Wages and Working Conditions......Page 249
9.5. Just Linkage......Page 252
9.6. Concluding Remarks......Page 254
III. From Public Policy Back to Theory......Page 262
Overview......Page 264
10. What Do We Owe Co-nationals and Non-nationals? Why the Liberal Nationalist Account Fails and How We Can Do Better......Page 265
10.1. Yael Tamir’s Liberal Nationalism......Page 266
10.2. David Miller’s Account......Page 273
10.3. Lessons from Liberal Nationalists: A Better Approach for Working Out What We Owe Non-nationals......Page 281
10.4. Consideration of Some Important Objections to ‘Impartialism’......Page 283
11. Has My Model of Global Justice Made Adequate Space for Legitimate Forms of Nationalism?......Page 291
11.1. Can Compatriot Favouritism be Justified? Does Obligation Diminish with Distance?......Page 292
11.2. Does My Account of Global Justice Leave Adequate Space for Our Legitimate National Aspirations? A Case Study......Page 299
11.3. Reconsideration of the General Issues......Page 308
12. Equality, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Justice......Page 315
12.1. Recapping Central Points Concerning Equality from Previous Chapters......Page 316
12.2. Elizabeth Anderson’s Version of Democratic Equality......Page 318
12.3. Democratic Equality and Global Justice......Page 321
12.4. Responsive Democracy and Democratic Equality......Page 326
12.5. My Account Captures Our Equality Better than Rival Conceptions Attuned Exclusively to Distributional Issues......Page 328
12.6. The Cosmopolitan Credentials of My Account of Global Justice Reviewed......Page 332
12.7. Summary and Conclusions......Page 335
13.1. Summary of Central Findings......Page 339
13.2. Scepticism about Feasibility......Page 342
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