Global Justice and Transnational Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262541335 ISBN 13: 9780262541336

Publisher: MIT Press, 2002

Synopsis

If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking and extension of normative political theory. Global Justice and Transnational Politics encourages and advances that work.

The book's first part, "Weak Universalism," contains essays by Amartya Sen and Leif Wenar that offer constructive developments of John Rawls's statement of the principles a liberal polity might reasonably propose to govern its relations with other peoples. The second part, "Strong Universalism and Transnational Commitments," contains essays by Jürgen Habermas, David Luban, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Pogge examining the normative sources and possible types of cross-border commitments. In the third part, "Transnational Politics and National Identities," Habermas discusses the possibility of a democratic political order developing within the institutional framework of the European Union; Thomas McCarthy draws on Kant to show how cosmopolitanism might be reconciled with the legacy of nationalism; and Craig Calhoun tries to retrieve a positive aspect of the tradition of nationalism, namely that it provides large populations with a powerful way of imagining political community across space and time.

About this title

About the Author:

Pablo De Greiff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Research Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0262541335
• ISBN 13: 9780262541336
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Greiff Pablo De, Cronin Ciaran P