{"product_id":"rawlss-law-of-peoples-isbn-9781405135306","title":"Rawls's Law of Peoples","description":"John Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls’s theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls’s \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of global economic justice, and its normative theory of liberal foreign policy. The book will set the terms of the debate on \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples \u003c\/i\u003efor years to come, thereby shaping the broader debates about global justice.  Notes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Background and Structure:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Rex Martin (University of Kansas) and David Reidy (University of Tennessee).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Uniting What Interest Prescribes with What Right Permits: Rawls’s Law of Peoples in Context: David Boucher (Cardiff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Rawls’s Peoples: Philip Pettit (Princeton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Universalism: Questions of Priority and Coherence:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Cultural Imperialism and “Democratic Peace.”: Catherine Audard (LSE, UK).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Problem of Decent Peoples: Kok-Chor Tan (Univ. of Pennsylvania).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian: Leif Wenar (Sheffield, UK).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: On Human Rights.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Human Rights as Moral Claim-Rights: Wilfried Hinsch and Markus Stepanians (Univ. of Saarland, Germany).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Rawls’s Narrow Doctrine of Human Rights: Alistair Macleod (Queen’s Univ., Canada).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Taking the Human Out of Human Rights: Allen Buchanan (Duke Univ., USA).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Political Authority and Human Rights: David Reidy(University of Tennessee).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: On Global Economic Justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Collective Responsibility and International Inequality in \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e: David Miller (Oxford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Do Rawls’s Two Theories of Justice Fit Together?: Thomas Pogge (Columbia, USA).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Rawls on International Distributive Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look: Rex Martin (University of Kansas, Lawrence).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Distributive Justice and \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e: Samuel Freeman (Univ. of Pennsylvania).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: On Liberal Democratic Foreign Policy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Rawls’s Theory of Human Rights in Light of Contemporary Human Rights Law and Practice: Jim Nickel (Arizona State University College of Law).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. A Human Right to Democracy? Rawls’s Law of Peoples on Governmental Legitimacy and Humanitarian Intervention: Alyssa Bernstein (Ohio Univ).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Justice, Stability and Toleration in a Federation of Well-Ordered Peoples: Andreas Follesdal (Univ. of Oslo, Norway).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This is a useful and illuminating volume that will greatly deepen its readers' understanding of Rawls's The Law of Peoples and related problems of justice and human rights on a global scale.\" (\u003ci\u003eHuman Right Review\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2008)  \u003cp\u003eA Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book for 2006\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRex Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eA System of Rights\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and a revised edition of R.G. Collingwood's \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Reidy\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of many articles and chapters in political philosophy and the philosophy of law and on Rawls in particular. He is the co-editor, with Mortimer Sellers, of \u003ci\u003eUniversal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World\u003c\/i\u003e (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e John Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls’s theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls’s \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of global economic justice, and its normative theory of liberal foreign policy. The book will set the terms of the debate on \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Peoples \u003c\/i\u003efor years to come, thereby shaping the broader debates about global justice.  \"Like his conception of social justice, John Rawls’s vision of a just world has been the subject of heated debate, but its real strengths and weaknesses are becoming apparent only gradually. This excellent volume substantially advances that process, and will benefit anyone hoping to understand how one of the greatest political philosophers addressed some of humanity’s most pressing problems\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eAndrew Williams, University of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989914566885,"sku":"NP9781405135306","price":149.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405135306.jpg?v=1761785890","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/rawlss-law-of-peoples-isbn-9781405135306","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}