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Book SynopsisDebates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among all human beings. On Global Justice shifts the term
Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Risse's On Global Justice is a definitive account of justice as a responsibility extending beyond national borders and international institutions to encompass all human life through shared experience and common humanity... This book is likely to become a primary resource for theorists and participants in global policy and human rights institutions."--Choice "The book ... addresses questions of great importance and offers an original and challenging perspective on how to approach them."--Adam Hosein, Political Science Quarterly "This is an important book. International economic lawyers sensitive to moral and political philosophy should not ignore it. Each of its chapters contains many significant insights... Risse has made a significant contribution."--John Linarelli, Journal of International Economic Law "This book ... displays a scholarly rigor and philosophical depth that renders much of the existing literature in this area obsolete... I have no doubt that this book will come to play a central role in normative theorizing about global justice for some time to come."--Daniel Savery, Political Studies Review "[A] deeply provocative, closely argued, and impressively many-sided book."--Richard Vernon, Perspectives on Politics
Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Part 1: Shared Citizenship and Common Humanity * Chapter 1: The Grounds of Justice 1 * Chapter 2: "Un Pouvoir Ordinaire": Shared Membership in a State as a Ground of Justice 23 * Chapter 3: Internationalism versus Statism and Globalism: Contemporary Debates 41 * Chapter 4: What Follows from Our Common Humanity? The Institutional Stance, Human Rights, and Nonrelationism 63 Part 2: Common Ownership of the Earth * Chapter 5: Hugo Grotius Revisited: Collective Ownership of the Earth and Global Public Reason 89 * Chapter 6: "Our Sole Habitation": A Contemporary Approach to Collective Ownership of the Earth 108 * Chapter 7: Toward a Contingent Derivation of Human Rights 130 * Chapter 8: Proportionate Use: Immigration and Original Ownership of the Earth 152 * Chapter 9: "But the Earth Abideth For Ever": Obligations to Future Generations 167 * Chapter 10: Climate Change and Ownership of the Atmosphere 187 Part 3: International Political and Economic Structures * Chapter 11: Human Rights as Membership Rights in the Global Order 209 * Chapter 12: Arguing for Human Rights: Essential Pharmaceuticals 232 * Chapter 13: Arguing for Human Rights: Labor Rights as Human Rights 245 * Chapter 14: Justice and Trade 261 Part 4: Global Justice and Institutions * Chapter 15: The Way We Live Now 281 * Chapter 16: "Imagine There's No Countries": A Reply to John Lennon 304 * Chapter 17: Justice and Accountability: The State 325 * Chapter 18: Justice and Accountability: The World Trade Organization 346 Notes 361 Bibliography 415 Index 453
