Download PDF by Laura Valentini: Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative Framework

By Laura Valentini

ISBN-10: 019959385X

ISBN-13: 9780199593859

Whereas the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals are overshadowed by means of poverty and destitution, a comparatively small subset of the world's inhabitants enjoys an unparalleled point of wealth. doubtless the world's wealthy have tasks to handle the plight of the worldwide terrible. yet may still we predict of those as tasks of egalitarian justice very similar to these utilising locally, or as weaker tasks of humanitarian guidance?

In this ebook, Laura Valentini deals an in-depth critique of the 2 such a lot favourite solutions to this question, cosmopolitanism and statism, and develops a unique normative framework for addressing it. valuable to this framework is the concept, not like tasks of assistance--which bind us to aid the needy--duties of justice position constraints at the methods we may perhaps legitimately coerce each other. seeing that coercion exists locally in addition to across the world, tasks of justice practice to either geographical regions. The different types of coercion characterizing those nation-states, despite the fact that, fluctuate, and so the content material of tasks of justice varies throughout them. Valentini concludes that given the character of present overseas coercion, international justice calls for greater than statist information, but lower than complete cosmopolitan equality.

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4, I argue that both approaches encounter significant difficulties from a theoretical as well as a practical point of view. This suggests that the debate between these two outlooks has reached an impasse. 6, I lay out the structure and contents of the book, thereby illustrating my proposed way out of the impasse. 2 Contemporary Liberalism: A Brief Overview It is now widely acknowledged that contemporary liberal theorists share a fundamental commitment to the principle of equal respect for persons qua autonomous, self-directing, agents.

While I argue that the coercion-based normative framework I defend may offer a plausible starting point for reasoning about our real-world duties and obligations, what the content of such duties and obligations actually is remains, to a significant extent, an open question. Moreover, it is an implication of my approach that this question can only be answered with the aid of specialists other than political philosophers, encompassing disciplines such as law, sociology, political science, and economics.

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