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17Cosmopolitanism and PatriotismIn Will Kymlicka & Kathryn Walker (eds.), Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World, University of British Columbia Press. 2012.
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33Justice Between Sites of JusticeLaw and Philosophy 35 (3): 291-311. 2016.Michael Blake argues that states are the primary sites of justice for persons and that the function of international justice is to ensure that states interact with each other in ways that preserve the capacity of each to realize justice for their own members. This paper will argue that justice among states requires more of states than that they preserve and maintain each other's capacity as primary sites of justice. Justice among states will require some justification, as well, of the claims of …Read more
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David Ingram, Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference (review)Philosophy in Review 20 418-420. 2000.
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65Priority for compatriots: Commentary on globalization and justiceEconomics and Philosophy 22 (1): 115-123. 2006.In his stimulating and provocative collection of essays, Globalization and Justice, Kai Nielsen defends a cosmopolitan account of global justice. On the cosmopolitan view, as Nielsen understands it, individuals are entitled to equal consideration regardless of citizenship or nationality and global institutions should be arranged in such a way that each person's interest is given equal consideration. Nielsen's defense of cosmopolitan justice in this collection will be of no surprise to readers fa…Read more
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33In some discussions on global distributive justice, it is argued that the factthat the state exercises coercive authority over its own citizens explains whythe state has egalitarian distributive obligations to its own but not to otherindividuals in the world at large. Two recent works make the case that the globalorder is indeed coercive in a morally significant way for generating certainglobal distributive obligations. Nicole Hassoun argues that the coercivecharacter of the global order gives r…Read more
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813Luck, Institutions, and Global Distributive JusticeEuropean Journal of Political Theory 10 (3): 394-421. 2011.Luck egalitarianism provides one powerful way of defending global egalitarianism. The basic luck egalitarian idea that persons ought not to be disadvantaged compared to others on account of his or her bad luck seems to extend naturally to the global arena, where random factors such as persons’ place of birth and the natural distribution of the world’s resources do affect differentially their life chances. Yet luck egalitarianism as an ideal, as well as its global application, has come under seve…Read more
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65Global Justice and Global RelationsSocial Theory and Practice 36 (3): 499-514. 2010.In Globalizing Justice, Richard Miller offers a novel understanding of the grounds and scope of the demands of global justice. Miller argues that our duties to the global poor should be conceived relationally, that is, as deriving from the very complex and substantial relationships that we, members of rich countries, have with members of poor countries. In this review essay, I ask whether a relational approach to justice is necessary for the kinds of global duties Miller wishes to advance (that …Read more
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81Cosmopolitan Impartiality and Patriotic PartialityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 35 (sup1): 165-192. 2005.Cosmopolitanism, as a moral idea, holds that individuals are the ultimate units of moral worth and are entitled to equal consideration, regardless of contingencies such as citizenship or nationality. In one common interpretation, cosmopolitan justice not only regards individuals as the basic subjects of moral concern, but it also requires distributive principles to transcend national affiliations and to apply equally to all persons of the world. As Simon Caney puts it, “persons’ entitlements sho…Read more
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2The Problem of Decent PeoplesIn Rex Martin & David Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?, Blackwell. 2006.
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17The Demands of Global JusticeOeconomia 13 (4): 665-679. 2013.This review essay discusses recent books by Nicole Hassoun, Laura Valentini and Pablo Gilabert. Topics I examine that are stimulated by these books include the distinction between global egalitarian obligation and humanitarian duties, the role of coercion in justifying global obligations, and the possibility of a third position that falls between humanitarianism and cosmopolitan egalitarianism
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