Justice and Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780199552009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 184 str.

Michael Blake

Opis

This book is an argument about the moral foundations of foreign policy. It argues that a liberal state can insist upon the universal reach of liberal ideas, while still distinguishing between what is owed to citizens and what is owed to foreign citizens. This liberalism includes a concern for liberal toleration, which is intended to defend the proposition that a liberal state can work for democratization and liberalism abroad, without being intolerant or illiberal in doing so. What constraints there are on foreign policy emerge not from the need to tolerate undemocratic regimes, but from the prudential reason that there are few effective and proportional means by which such regimes might be liberalized. It also argues that international inequality is wrong only when and to the extent this inequality can be shown to undermine the democratic self-rule of a society. Global poverty and underdevelopment is wrong for reasons quite unlike the reasons given to condemn domestic inequality. These facts are combined to give an attractive and coherent picture of how the foreign policy of a liberal state might be morally evaluated.

Recenzje

In Justice and Foreign Policy, Michael Blake exhibits the insight and clarity for which he is rightly prized. This impressive book, which is a model of how to do philosophy that is at once theoretically deep and practically significant, is sure to cement Blake's standing as among the best, most important political philosophers writing today.

O autorze

Michael Blake is Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, where he is Director of the Program on Values in Society. He has previously taught in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.