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Between Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty explores how philosophers and political theorists have recast principles of justice and human rights in the light of challenges posed by globalization. It discusses ethical issues that arise at a global level and considers whether human rights and sovereignty can ever be reconciled.
List of contents
Introduction; R.Tinnevelt & G.Verschraegen PART 1: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Global Distributive Justice; C.Jones States, Individuals, and Equality; L.Wenar Do Rich Countries have a Negative Duty to Fight Global Poverty?; R.van der Veen Global Distributive Justice and the Environment; S.Caney Justice for Africa; R.E.Howard-Hassmann PART 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LIBERALISM Liberalism and Cultural Diversity: Some Challenges; K-C.Tan Liberal Contribution to a Universal Ethic; B.Parekh The Liberal Concept of Political Secularism; H.Bielefeldt Rights of Culture, Rights of Conscience; C.Kukathas Emergent Cosmopolitanism. Indigenous Peoples and International Law; D.Ivison PART 3: SOVEREIGNTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY Human Rights Protection in a World of Sovereign States; R.H.Jackson Human Rights, Justice and Anarchy in International Relations; M.Frost Human Rights as Global Participatory Entitlements; R.Marchetti Protecting Human Rights: Transnational Governance or World State?; R.Tinnevelt & G.Verschraegen How Much Democracy does Global Constitutionalism Need?; H.Brunkhorst PART 4: ETHICAL FOREIGN POLICY AND THE LEGITIMACY OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION Perspectives on Global Justice: Norms, Structures, Processes and Context; R.Falk Good International Citizenship; B.Orend The Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention; F.R.Tesón Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and 'Preventive Non-Intervention'; D.K.Chatterjee Problems of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism; C.A.J.Coady
About the author
HEINER BIELEFELDT Director of the German Institute for Human Rights, Germany
HAUKE BRUNKHORST Professor of Sociology, University of Flensburg, Germany
SIMON CANEY Professor in Political Theory, University of Birmingham, UK
DEEN K. CHATTERJEE Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Utah, USA
C.A.J. (TONY) COADY Professorial Fellow in Applied Philosophy, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Australia
RICHARD FALK Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University, USA
MERVYN FROST Professor of International Relations, Department of War Studies, King's College, London, UK
RHODA E. HOWARD-HASSMANN Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
DUNCAN IVISON Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada and Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia
ROBERT H. JACKSON Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University, USA
CHARLES JONES Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada
CHANDRAN KUKATHAS Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory, Public Policy and Public Service, Department of Political Science, University of Utah, USA
RAFFAELE MARCHETTI Lecturer in International Political Theory, LUISS University, Italy
BRIAN OREND Director of International Studies and Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada
BHIKHU PAREKH Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster, UK and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Hull, UK
KOK-CHOR TAN Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Pennsylvania, USA
FERNANDO R. TESÓN Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar, College of Law, Florida State University, USA
ROBERT VAN DER VEEN Associate Professor in Political Theory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
LEIF WENAR Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK
Summary
Between Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty explores how philosophers and political theorists have recast principles of justice and human rights in the light of challenges posed by globalization. It discusses ethical issues that arise at a global level and considers whether human rights and sovereignty can ever be reconciled.
