Social and Global Justice: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of their Relationship
Routledge, Under Preparation. Co-edited with Ayelet Banai and Christian Schemmel
What is the role of the state in a just international order? Should theories of global and international justice focus on the nation-state? Or has the state lost its capacity for autonomous action in the global economy, and thus its ethical significance for theories of justice? Should, then, theorists of politics and international relations focus on international institutions? While these questions are at the centre of the theoretical debates on global justice, they have hardly received their due attention. Main theoretical publications, of both the cosmopolitan and the nationalist views about international justice, make assumptions and claims about the facts of globalisation, and in particular about the role and autonomy of the nation state. These factual claims and assumptions often play an important role in justifying the ethical normative conclusions, yet remain under-explored.
This edited volume ddresses, from an innovative perspective, two of the pressing questions in the scholarship of global and international justice. (a) It offers in one volume overviews of both the main theoretical approaches to global justice and the factual trends that inform them – namely rates and trends in poverty; and the relationship between poverty and economic growth. (b) Ot offers normative views on concrete policies and institutions – i.e. international health policies, the World Bank, taxation policies and the World Trade Organization.
The volume includes a contribution from the editors (Ayelet Banai, Miriam Ronzoni, and Christian Schemmel) and contributions from Clara Brandi, Gllian Brock, Simon Caney, Norman Daniels, Peter Dietsch, Kate MacDonald, Mark Mattner, Glyn Morgan, Thomas Pogge, Andrea Sangiovanni, Simon Tormey, and Andrew Robinson.