Transnational Social Justice (Global Ethics)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Acronyms......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Epigraph......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
Introduction......Page 26
Rawls’s justice as fairness: A paradigm of social justice......Page 27
On Rawlsian cosmopolitanism......Page 33
What’s wrong with Rawlsian cosmopolitanism?......Page 45
On O’Neill’s transnational obligations......Page 48
Justice: Obligations or rights?......Page 49
A critique of O’Neill’s project......Page 54
On Singer’s moral obligation to assist......Page 58
Singer’s utilitarian framework......Page 59
The Singer solution to World poverty......Page 61
Is Singer’s argument a fallacy?......Page 64
Introduction......Page 69
The Westphalian and post-Westphalian internationalsociety: Two ideal-types of non-anarchic systems......Page 72
The Westphalian international society......Page 79
The post-Westphalian international society......Page 82
Introduction......Page 99
The circumstances of justice......Page 102
States: The primary agents of justice......Page 112
States beyond the realist archetype......Page 115
States are mutually vulnerable to the effects of interdependence......Page 119
Modern states have a consistent concern for the well-being of their populations......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 134
Introduction......Page 136
Towards a feasible approach of global social justice......Page 137
Transnational norms and social justice......Page 142
The duty of assistance......Page 152
Conclusion......Page 165
Notes......Page 170
Bibliography......Page 186
Index......Page 196