Problems of International Justice

ISBN-13: 9780367284367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 314 str.

Steven Luper-foy

Opis

When the topic of international justice did arise, discussion rarely got beyond recommendations about how nations could avoid war, as well as suggestions about when a declaration of war was morally justifiable and what sorts of methods might be used in the course of a justifiable war the topics of so-called just-war theory. Such is no longer the case.To be sure, just-war theory is reaching greater states of sophistication,much of it focused around Michael Walzer's book Just and Unjust Wars.Excerpts from Walzer's book appear here, in Part Two, along with a set of newly written chapters that deal with issues arising from the use of violence among nations. The topics of these chapters are foreign interventionism and states' rights, deterrence and the threat of nuclear reprisal, and terrorism.But issues of international justice other than just-war theory have been discussed by an an ever-increasing group of twentieth-century scholars. These issues deal with what might be called (for lack of a better term) distributive justice, which concerns the distribution of the world's natural resources and the goods produced by laborers across the world, as well as the duties,rights, and liberties possessed by individuals. How such items ought to be distributed within nation-states has been discussed extensively by social and political philosophers. Only in recent years has any attention been paid to the proper distribution of goods internationally. The chapters in Part One all do so. With one exception, all of these chapters are written for this volume. The exception is an excerpt from Charles Beitz's book PoliticalTheory and International Relations, Part Three of which is reproduced here almost in its entirety. The other chapters in this part are devoted to the topics of justice and the distribution of the world's resources, the obligation to assist the needy, the responsibilities of international corporations, and justice and the global environment.

Spis treści

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Distributive Justice /Steven Luper-Foy -- PART ONE - WORLD RESOURCES AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE -- A. Justice and Distribution of the World's Resources -- l. International Distributive Justice /Charles R. Beitz -- 2. The Uneasy Case for Global Redistribution /Eric Mack -- B. The Obligation to Assist the Needy -- 3. Hunger, Needs, and Rights /Onora O'Neill -- 4. World Hunger, Benevolence, and Justice /William Aiken -- C. The Responsibilities of International Corporations -- 5. The Moral Obligations of Multinational Corporations /Norman Bowie -- 6. Exorcising the Demon of Cultural Relativism /Peter French -- D. Justice and the Global Environment -- 7. Environmental Ethics and International Justice /Bernard E. Rollin -- 8. The Deep Ecology Movement /Arne Naess -- PART TWO - THE LEGITIMATE USE OF VIOLENCE -- A. Foreign Interventionism and States' Rights -- 9. The Theory of Aggression /Michael Walzer -- 10. The Reagan Doctrine in Nicaragua /Charles R. Beitz -- 11. Foreign Intervention /Alan H. Goldman -- B. Deterrence and the Threat of Nuclear Reprisal -- 12. War and Nuclear Deterrence /David Gauthier -- 13. Prisoners and Chickens /Douglas P. Lackey -- C. Terrorism -- 14. Terrorism: A -Critique of Excuses /Michael Walzer -- 15. Understanding Terrorism /Robert K. Fullinwider -- PART THREE - JUSTICE AND WORLD GOVERNMENT -- 16. World Government, Security, and Global Justice /Kai Nielsen -- 17. Moral Progress /Thomas Pogge -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.

O autorze

Steven Luper-Foy is associate professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity University. He is editor of The Possibility of Knowledge (1987) and guest editor of an issue of Synthese covering the internalismjexternalism controversy -.in epistemology.