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12Horray for Global Justice? Emergin Democracies in a Multipolar WorldGlobal Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric 7 39-66. 2014.Rising powers are fundamentally shifting the relations of power in the global economic and political landscape. International political theory, however, has so far failed to evaluate this nascent multipolarity. This article fills this lacuna by synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging democracies and focuses especially on the case of Brazil. The paper shows that – in stark contrast to emerging democracies’ foreign …Read more
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161Horray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar WorldGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 7 39-66. 2014.Rising powers are fundamentally shifting the relations of power in the global economic and political landscape. International political theory, however, has so far failed to evaluate this nascent multipolarity. This article fills this lacuna by synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging democracies and focuses especially on the case of Brazil. The paper shows that – in stark contrast to emerging democracies’ foreign …Read more
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15Global Justice and International Affairs, edited by Thom BrooksJournal of Moral Philosophy 13 (2): 249-252. 2016.
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19Reciprocity in Economic GamesAnalyse & Kritik 33 (1): 349-364. 2011.The evidence of laboratory experiments of behavioral economists shows that individuals behave reciprocally. These data put into question the pure self-interest thesis of human motivation of the homo oeconomicus model and call for alternative models. Focusing on the explanation of reciprocal behavior in Trust Games, this article proposes two directions that economists and other social scientists might want to consider in order to establish a more solid foundation for economic theory. First, it pr…Read more
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13G. A. Cohen, Constructivism, and the Fact of Reasonable PluralismAnalyse & Kritik 37 (1-2): 131-148. 2015.In this article I argue that G.A. Cohen is mistaken in his belief that the concept of justice needs to be rescued from constructivist theorists of justice. In doing so, I rely on insights of John Rawls’ later work Political Liberalism and Rainer Forst’s discourse theory of justice. Such critical engagement with Cohen’s critique of constructivism is needed, because Cohen bases his critique of constructivism almost exclusively on Rawls’s arguments and positions in A Theory of Justice. He thus negl…Read more
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10Review: Diana Tietjens Meyers, ed., Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights (review)Ethics 126 (1): 234-238. 2015.
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6Comment on Lukas Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha. Individual Expectations and Climate JusticeAnalyse & Kritik 33 (2): 473-476. 2011.
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17Tietjens Meyers, Diana, ed. Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights.New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 376. $99.00 ; $39.95 (review)Ethics 126 (1): 234-238. 2015.
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36Internationalizing Nussbaum’s model of cosmopolitan democratic educationEthics and Education 13 (2): 172-190. 2018.Nussbaum’s moral cosmopolitanism informs her capability-based theory of justice, which she uses in order to develop a distinctive model of cosmopolitan democratic education. I characterize Nussbaum’s educational model as a ‘statist model,’ however, because it regards cosmopolitan democratic education as necessary for realizing democratic arrangements at the domestic level. The socio-cultural diversity of virtually every nation, Nussbaum argues, renders it mandatory to educate citizens in a cosmo…Read more
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39Disaggregated pluralistic theories of global distributive justice – a critiqueJournal of Global Ethics 13 (2): 168-186. 2017.Pluralistic theories of global distributive justice aim at justifying a plurality of principles for various subglobal contexts of distributive justice. Helena de Bres has recently proposed the class of disaggregated pluralistic theories, according to which we should refrain from defending principles that apply to the shared background conditions of such subglobal contexts. This article argues that if one does not justify how these background conditions should be regulated by principles of a just…Read more
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12Against all odds: Peace education in times of crisisEducational Philosophy and Theory 49 (10): 1029-1037. 2017.Contexts of violent, intractable conflict such as those present in Israel, Nigeria, or Iraq represent times of severe crisis. Reducing the high indices of violence is very urgent, but the attempts of establishing peaceful arrangements in the short- or medium-term usually fail. Peace education, by contrast, is a long-term endeavor to resolve violent, intractable conflicts that aims at affecting moral stances that the conflicting parties take vis-à-vis each other. Unfortunately, however, peace edu…Read more
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33Introduction: education and migrationJournal of Global Ethics 14 (1): 5-10. 2018.This introduction expounds educational problems that arise from transnational migration. It argues that it is high time to critically analyze normative issues of and in education under conditions of globalization because dominant approaches in normative philosophy of education tend to suffer from both a nationalist bias and a sedentary bias. The contributions to this special issue address normative problems pertaining to migration-related education from a variety of ethical and philosophical per…Read more
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40Rising powers' responsibility for reducing global distributive injusticeJournal of Global Ethics 10 (3): 274-282. 2014.Rising powers like India and Brazil have recently been gaining considerable economic and political power. This has led to the emergence of a nascent multipolarity in global affairs. Theorists of global distributive justice, however, continue to focus almost exclusively on the responsibility of the established powers for combating global poverty and neglect whether there is a similar responsibility of rising powers. That focus neglects that great shifts have occurred in the distribution of the ec…Read more
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46Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justiceEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 15 (1): 50-64. 2016.The practice-independent approach to theorizing justice holds that the social practices to which a particular conception of justice is meant to apply are of no importance for the justification of such a conception. In this paper I argue that this approach to theorizing justice is incompatible with the method of reflective equilibrium because the MRE is antithetical to a clean separation between issues of justification and application. In particular I will be maintaining that this incompatibility…Read more
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33Normative reconstruction without foundationEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (2): 248-255. 2016.