International Development and Human Aid (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice?These 8 essays mirror and expand the complexity of contemporary discussions on cosmopolitanism and global justice, focusing on a normative study of the global institutional order with suggestions of direct ways to reform it. They assess schemes of worldwide distributive justice and the mechanisms required to discharge the global duties that the theories establish. Assesses the workability of philosophical conceptions of justice for the global sphereAddresses fields including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the United Nations' Central Emergency Response Fund and the global responsibility of the European UnionFor political philosophers, political scientists and sociologists working on the philosophy of international relations, global ethics, global justice, humanitarian aid and development politics Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays assesses fields including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund and the global responsibility of the EU. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…