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Real world justice

grounds, principles, human rights, and social institutions

Andreas Follesdal ; Thomas Pogge

Buch

englisch

Follesdal, Andreas (Ed.) DNB
Pogge, Thomas (Ed.) DNB

Studies in global justice

1

Springer

Dordrecht

2005

VI, 408 p.

978-1-4020-3149-6

Includes bibliographic references

women
human rights
poverty
social justice
justice

Summary:

The concept of global justice makes visible how we citizens of affluent countries are potentially implicated in the horrors so many must endure in the so-called less developed countries. Distinct conceptions of global justice differ in their specific criteria of global justice. However, they agree that the touchstone is how well our global institutional order is doing, compared to its feasible alternatives, in regard to the fundamental human interests that matter from a moral point of view. We are responsible for global regimes such as the global trading system and the rules governing military interventions. These institutional arrangements affect human beings worldwide, for instance by shaping the options and incentives of governments and corporations. Alternative paths of globalization would have differed in how much violence, oppression, and extreme poverty they engender. And global institutional reforms could greatly enhance human rights fullfillment in the future. The importance of this global justice approach reaches well beyond philosophy. It helps ordinary citizens evaluate their options and their responsibility for global institutional factors, and it challenges social scientists to address the causes of poverty and hunger that act across borders. The present volume addresses four main topics regarding global justice: The normative grounds for claims regarding the global institutional order, the substantive normative principles for a legitimate global order, the roles of legal human rights standards, and some institutional arrangements that may make the present world order less unjust. All royalties from this book have been assigned to Oxfam.
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Introduction
Poverty and Global Justice: Some Challenges Ahead Andreas Follesdal and Thomas Pogge
Justice, Morality and Power in the Global Context Hilde F. Johnson
"Saving Amina": Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue Rainer Forst
Poverty as a Human Rights Violation and the Limits of Nationalism Alison M. Jaggar
International or Global Justice? Evaluating the Cosmopolitan Approach Geert Demuijnck
Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle Thomas Mertens
World Poverty and Moral Responsibility Christian Barry
The Principle of Subsidiarity Ser-Min Shei
"It's the Power, Stupid!" On the Unmentioned Precondition of Social Justice Stefan Gosepath
Egalitarian Global Distributive Justice or Minimal Standard? Pogge's Position Alessandro Pinzani
Responsibility and International Distributive Justice VÃ(c)ronique Zanetti
From Natural Law to Human Rights â¼" Some Reflections on Thomas Pogge and Global Justice Alexander Cappelen
Deliberation or Negotiation? Remarks on the Justice of Global and Regional Human Rights Agreements Henrik Syse
Human Rights and Relativism Regina Kreide
The Nature of Human Rights Andreas Follesdal
Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation â¼" Weak and Strong Leif Wenar
The First UN Millennium Development Goal: A Cause for Celebration? Thomas Pogge
Can Global Distributive Justice be Minimalist and Consensual? â¼" Reflections on Thomas Pogge's
Global Tax on Natural Resources Wilfried Hinsch and Markus Stepanians
Redistributing Responsibilities â¼" The UN Global Compact with Corporations Jean-Christophe Merle
About the Authors Andrew Kuper
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