Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice - Paperback

by Christian Barry (Editor), Thomas W. Pogge (Editor)

This book helps readers identify feasible and morally plausible reforms of global institutional arrangements and international organizations.

• A distinctive, practically oriented contribution to debates about global justice.
  
• Helps readers to examine the fairness of global rules and institutions.
  
• Integrates philosophical thinking about normative responsibility with discussion of practical dilemmas concerning organizations such as the WTO, and rules governing the use of force internationally.
  
• Brings together original articles by political philosophers, legal theorists, and economists.
  
• Considers the aims of global justice, the institutional arrangements that are required to realise them, and the allocation of responsibilities to promote the required institutional reforms.

Back Jacket

This volume combines original essays by political philosophers, legal theorists, and economists into a spirited debate about the practical dilemmas of globalization. It integrates rigorous thinking about the principles of global justice with concrete discussions of the UN, the WTO, the World Bank, and the rules of war. It thereby enriches moral theorizing by engaging it in real-world issues and also provides solid moral grounds for designing and assessing reforms of present international rules and organizations.

Author Biography

Christian Barry is Editor of Ethics and International Affairs. His recent publications include Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle (2005) and Redistribution (2004).

Thomas W. Pogge is Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University as well as Professor of Philosophy at Columbia and Oslo Universities. His recent publications include World Poverty and Human Rights (2002), Real World Justice (2005), and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (2005).