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    Global Justice and Global Relations
    Social 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
  •  36
    Critical Notice (review)
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 113-132. 2001.
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    Cosmopolitan Impartiality and Patriotic Partiality
    Canadian 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
  •  17
    The Demands of Global Justice
    Oeconomia 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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    Military Intervention as a Moral Duty
    Public Affairs Quarterly 9 (1): 29-46. 1995.
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    Colonialism, Reparations and Global Justice
    In Jon Miller & Rahul Kumar (eds.), Reparations: interdisciplinary inquiries, Oxford University Press. pp. 280--306. 2007.
    This chapter examines two basic philosophical challenges for the idea of reparations for past injustices (using colonialism as the focal point). The first challenge is that requiring people today to make reparations for an injustice they themselves did not commit is unfair. The second is that if reparative claims are invoked because of lingering injustices, then recalling the past is in fact normatively redundant if lingering present injustices can be handled by forward-looking principles. In re…Read more
  •  98
    Kok-Chor Tan addresses three key questions in political philosophy: Where does distributive equality matter? Why does it matter? And among whom does it matter? He argues for an institutional site for egalitarian justice, a luck-egalitarian ideal of why equality matters, and a global scope for distributive justice.
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    Two Conceptions of Liberal Global Toleration
    The Monist 94 (4): 489-505. 2011.
    How should a liberal state respond to a nonliberal state that is however a decent society? By “decent,” I mean, adopting John Rawls’s terminology, that the so described state is nonaggressive and recognizes the independence and equality of other states and that it also honors basic human rights. Should a liberal state tolerate such a nonliberal state? We can identify two possible conceptions of global toleration in this regard. One conception holds that liberal states ought to tolerate nonlibera…Read more
  • Onora O'Neill, Bounds of Justice (review)
    Philosophy in Review 21 366-368. 2001.
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    The Boundary of Justice and The Justice of Boundaries
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 29 (2): 319-344. 2006.
    Two classes of arguments are often deployed by the anti-global egalitarians against attempts to universalize the demands of distributive equality. One are arguments attempting to show that global egalitarians have misconstrued the reasons for why equality matters domestically, and hence have wrongly extended these reasons to the global arena. These arguments hold that the boundary of distributive justice is effectively coextensive with the boundaries of state. The other are arguments that attemp…Read more