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    Just Deserts and Needs
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (2): 165-188. 1999.
    In this paper I argue for there being some deep connections between claims of desert and claims of need, despite the fact that these sorts of claims are frequently pitted against one another. I present an argument to show some conceptual links between desert and needs. Principles underlying why people are thought to be deserving entail principles which commit us to caring about others' needs. I also examine whether we can construct some coherent notion of desert and an argument for why some can …Read more
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    In his recent review essay, Stan van Hooft raises some interesting potential challenges for cosmopolitan global justice projects, of which my version is one example.1 I am grateful to van Hooft for doing so. I hope by responding to these challenges here, others concerned with developing frameworks for analyzing issues of global justice will also learn something of value. I start by giving a very brief synopsis of key themes of my book, Global Justice,2 so I can address van Hooft’s concerns about…Read more
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    How are we to navigate between duties to compatriots and duties to non-compatriots? Within the literature there are two important kinds of accounts that are thought to offer contrasting positions on these issues, namely, cosmopolitanism and statism. We discuss these two rival accounts. I then outline my position on global justice and how to accommodate insights from both the cosmopolitan and statist traditions within it. Having outlined my ideal theory account of what global justice requires, I …Read more
  •  14
    European Perspectives on Business Ethics
    Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (3): 385-390. 1996.
  •  38
    Some future directions for global justice
    Journal of Global Ethics 10 (3): 254-260. 2014.
    The fields of global ethics and global justice have expanded considerably over the last two decades and they now cover a wide variety of topics. Given this huge range there are many areas that are ripe for important developments. In this commentary I identify some useful directions for promising exploration in the field of global justice. I argue that expanded dialogue networks would considerably enhance work in philosophy and be beneficial to other disciplines as well. I indicate also how we co…Read more
  •  89
    Cosmopolitanism Versus Noncosmopolitanism
    The Monist 94 (4): 455-465. 2011.
  •  9
    Rethinking Feminist Ethics (review)
    Social Theory and Practice 25 (3): 531-537. 1999.
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    Understanding Well-Being in Policy and Practice
    with Steven R. Smith
    Ethics and Social Welfare 8 (3): 215-217. 2014.
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    Meeting needs and business obligations: An argument for the libertarian skeptic (review)
    Journal of Business Ethics 15 (6). 1996.
    In this paper I argue that if we are to have any defensible property rights at all, we must recognize a fundamental commitment to helping those in need. The argument has significant implications for all who claim defensible property rights. In this paper I concentrate on some of the implications this argument has for redefining business obligations. In particular, I show why those who typically would be quite resistant to the idea that businesses have any obligations to assist others in need mus…Read more
  •  143
    Global Health and Global Health Ethics (edited book)
    with Solomon Benatar
    Cambridge University Press. 2011.
    Machine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction; Part I. Global Health, Definitions and Descriptions: 1. What is global health? Solly Benatar and Ross Upshur; 2. The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects Ron Labonte and Ted Schrecker; 3. Addressing the societal determinants of health: the key global health ethics imperative of our times Anne-Emmanuelle Birn; 4. Gender and global health: inequality and differences Lesley Doyal and Sarah Payne; 5. Heath…Read more
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    What kind of role, if any, can immigration policies play in moving us towards global justice? On one view, the removal of restrictions on immigration might seem to constitute great progress in realizing the desired goal. After all, people want to emigrate mainly because they perceive that their prospects for better lives are more likely to be secured elsewhere. If we remove restrictions on their ability to travel, would this not constitute an advance over the status quo in which people are signi…Read more
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    What Does Cosmopolitan Justice Demand of Us?
    Theoria 51 169-191. 2004.
  • Global justice
    In Catriona McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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    The New Nationalisms
    The Monist 82 (3): 367-386. 1999.
    Nationalism has been a cause of great misery in the world. In this century alone we have seen a number of hideous forms of nationalism leading to genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced relocations, and civil wars. The violent conflicts between Serbians, Croatians, and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia; the Hutus and the Tutsis in Central Africa; Palestinians and Jews in the Middle East; Afrikaners, Zulus, and Xhosas in Southern Africa; and the Nazis and non-Aryans, are just some of these.
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    Self-determination does and should play an important role in our conceptions of what it is to treat persons and peoples justly. I write at a time when the Middle East is erupting with demands for more appropriate rule by and for the people . Indigenous peoples around the world have been demanding better control over their traditional lands, over the last few decades in particular. And a serious global recession has affected all local economies since 2008, raising pertinent issues about the wisdo…Read more
  • Current Debates in Global Justice
    with Darrell Moellendorf
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (4): 825-826. 2006.
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  • Basic Liberties and Global Justice
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 19 (2). 2006.
    My primary goals in this article are to show: first, that we can identify and justify which basic freedoms are important ones to protect in the global context; second, that we can monitor whether we are making progress with respect to whether more or fewer people are enjoying the important freedoms; third, that we can identify some key institutions that play a central role in fortifying those freedoms; fourth, that we can help build or fortify local capacity with respect to protecting basic free…Read more
  •  54
    Justice for Irregular Migrants, Refugees and Temporary Workers: Some Issues for Carens
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (4): 435-442. 2016.
    The Ethics of Immigration is a wonderfully comprehensive and insightful journey through all the major contemporary ethical issues concerning immigration. Through this outstandingly well-crafted work, Carens builds a compelling case for many important positions on how we should treat migrants. Nevertheless, I believe there are some tensions in his arguments that could do with more analysis. I present some of these issues in this article. These include some important problems with arguments for th…Read more
  •  80
    What do we owe others as a matter of global justice and does national membership matter?
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 11 (4): 433-448. 2008.
    David Miller offers us a sophisticated account of how we can reconcile global obligations and duties to co?nationals. In this article I focus on four weaknesses with his account such as the following two. First, there remains considerable unclarity about the strength of the positive duties we have to non?nationals and how these measure up relative to other positive duties, such as the ones Miller believes we have to co?nationals to implement civil, political, or social rights. Second, just how r…Read more
  •  51
    How Does Equality Matter?
    Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (1): 76-87. 2011.
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    European Perspectives on Business Ethics
    Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (3): 387-390. 1996.
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    I examine how reforming our international tax regime could be an important vehicle by which we can begin to realize global justice. For instance, eliminating tax havens, tax evasion, and transfer pricing schemes are all important to ensure accountability and to support democracies. I argue that the proposals concerning taxation reform are likely to be more effective in tackling global poverty than Thomas Pogge's global resources dividend because they target some of the central issues more effect…Read more
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    Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration?
    with Michael I. Blake
    Oup Usa. 2014.
    Many of the most skilled and educated citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate. How may those societies respond to these facts? May they ever legitimately prevent the emigration of their citizens? Gillian Brock and Michael Blake debate these questions, and offer distinct arguments about the morality of emigration.
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    Review of Stan Van Hooft, Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (1). 2010.
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    Consumer Complicity and Labor Exploitation
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 113-125. 2016.
    Are consumers in high-income countries complicit in labor exploitation when they buy good produced in sweatshops? To focus attention we consider cases of labor exploitation such as those of exposing workers to very high risks of irreversible diseases, for instance, by failing to provide adequate safety equipment. If I purchase a product made under such conditions, what is my part in this exploitation? Is my contribution one of complicity that is blameworthy? If so, what ought I to do about such …Read more