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Justice at a Distance argues that global justice is largely caused by ill-designed local political structures, not because of insufficient aid.
List of contents
1. The state of the world; 2. What do we owe distant others?; 3. Choosing wealth, choosing poverty; 4. Immigration; 5. Emigration and the brain drain objection; 6. Justice and trade; 7. States; 8. War, self-defense, and humanitarian intervention; 9. Beyond justice at a distance.
About the author
Loren Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Lomasky is the author of Persons, Rights and the Moral Community (1987) for which he was awarded the 1990 Matchette Foundation Book Prize for best philosophy book published during the preceding two years by an author under the age of forty. He coauthored Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge, 1993) with Geoffrey Brennan. His essay, 'Is There a Duty to Vote?', also coauthored with Brennan, was awarded the 2003 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy by the American Philosophical Association.Fernando R. Tesón is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University. He is the author of Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality, 3rd edition and Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure (with Guido Pincione). He has written more than fifty articles in journals, including Ethics and International Affairs, the Journal of Philosophy, the American Journal of International Law and Social Philosophy and Policy.
Summary
Justice at a Distance is the first philosophical work to recommend liberalization of political structures to address global problems, especially poverty. For the most part, local injustice, and not rich countries' failings, generates poverty and stagnation. The book is aimed at fellow academics and students of political philosophy, social justice, law, and international relations.
