International Development and Human Aid : Principles, Norms and Institutions for the Global Sphere

Barcelos, Paulo (EDT); De Angelis, Gabriele (EDT)

ISBN 10: 147443259X / ISBN 13: 9781474432597

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: International Development and Human Aid : Principles, Norms and Institutions for the Global Sphere
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147443259X
• ISBN 13: 9781474432597
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Authors

Paulo Barcelos is a researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the same university.

Gabriele De Angelis is Researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon (NOVA).