Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Justice and reconciliation: Versailles 1919; 2. Pathologies of victimhood; 3. Settling accounts; 4. Agents, structures, and colonial injustice; 5. History and structural injustice; 6. Reconciliation and alienation; 7. Reparations; 8. Beyond reparations: towards structural transformation.

About the author

Catherine Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montréal. Her research intersects political theory and international relations, focusing on critical and normative studies of humanitarianism and intervention in world politics; justice, reconciliation, and colonialism; and cosmopolitanism, global justice, and the world state. She is the author of Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (2006), and has held research fellowships from the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Summary

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Lu, Catherine (Mcgill University Lu, Catherine Yen-Ping (McGill University Lu, Lu Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108413053
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41305-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, International Law, Social & political philosophy, International humanitarian law, International human rights law