International Development and Human Aid - Principles, Norms and Institutions for the Global Sphere

Theoretical and practical analysis of global institutions for international aid The philosophical foundations of global and international standards of distributive justice are controversial. Much has been done to assess such standards of aid, assistance, and redistribution, but are they achievable? Do they align themselves with viable organisational and institutional practices? The essays presented in this collection explore different fields of application of global and international standards of justice: humanitarian and development aid, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the United Nations' Central Emergency Response Fund, and the global responsibility of the European Union - to assess the feasibility of conceptions of justice for the global sphere. Paulo Barcelos is a researcher and doctoral candidate in Political Science at the Nova Institute of Philosophy. Gabriele De Angelis is Research Fellow in Political Theory at the Nova Institute of Philosophy.

List of contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Justice in a Complex World: An Introduction
Paulo Barcelos

Part I Human Rights and the World Economy: Questions of Scope

2. The (Difficult) Universality of Economic and Social Rights
Sylvie Loriaux

3. Economic Justice and the Minimally Good Human Life Account of Needs
Nicole Hassoun

Part II The Applicability of Global Principles - Some Contemporary Dilemmas

4. Toward Another Kind of Development Practice
Julian Culp

5. Three Approaches to Global Health Care Justice: Rejecting the Positive/Negative Rights Distinction
Peter G. N. West-Oram

6. Restitution and Distributive Justice
George F. DeMartino and Jonathan D. Moyer

Part III Justice and International Institutions

7. Narrow Versus Comprehensive Justification in Humanitarian Aid: A Case Study of the CERF
Alexander Brown

8. Global Justice and the Mission of the European Union
Philippe Van Parijs

Index

About the author

Paulo Barcelos is a researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the same university. Gabriele De Angelis is Researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon (NOVA).

Summary

Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays assesses fields including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund and the global responsibility of the EU.

Product details

• Authors: Paulo Barcelos, Paulo De Angelis Barcelos
• Assisted by: Paulo Barcelos (Editor), Gabriele De Angelis (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781474432597
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-3259-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights; Studies in Global Justice; Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education