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Authors from a variety of fields including law, political science, international relations and economics discuss matters of justice at the national, international and global levels.
List of contents
1. Introduction to conversations on justice from national, international and global perspectives Jean-Marc Coicaud; Part I. Global Knowledge/Global Thought: 2. Global order and global knowledge Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 3. Thinking globally at the beginning of the twenty-first century Hui Wang; 4. Oh, [Muslim] believers: be just, that is always closer to true piety Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im; Part II. From Thinking Globally to Global Ethics: 5. Extent and limits of global justice David Miller; 6. Minority rights, secularism, and justice Neera Chandhoke; 7. Decent society, memory, and compromise Avishai Margalit; 8. Global ethics and global justice Thomas W. Pogge; Part III. International Law and Justice: 9. International law as the articulation of universalism and pluralism Mireille Delmas-Marty; 10. International law and the question of its transcivilizational possibility Onuma Yasuaki; 11. International organizations and global justice José E. Alvarez; Part IV. World Order and Global Policy: 12. Global justice and global peace Charles A. Kupchan; 13. International economics and development A. Michael Spence; 14. Principles and institutions of global justice David Held; Part V. Concluding Thoughts: 15. Concluding thoughts on conversations on justice from national, international and global perspectives Jean-Marc Coicaud and Lynette E. Sieger.
About the author
Jean-Marc Coicaud is Professor of Law and Global Affairs at Rutgers School of Law, Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is also an elected member of Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences). He has published fifteen books and over one hundred scholarly articles and chapters in the fields of political and legal theory, international law, international organizations, international relations and comparative politics.Lynette E. Sieger is a Ph.D. candidate at the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She specializes in global, legal, and political theory.
Summary
This unique volume is made up of conversations that feature key authors from around the world, and from a variety of disciplines, who discuss the central questions of justice at the national, international and global levels.
