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Cosmopolitan justice, democracy and the world stateIn Luis Cabrera (ed.), Institutional cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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20The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States, Robert H. Jackson , 480 pp., $29.95 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 15 (2): 146-148. 2001.
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64Human Wrongs and the Tragedy of Victimhood: Response to "Human Rights and the Politics of Victimhood"Ethics and International Affairs 16 (2): 109-117. 2002.The problem with the politics of victimhood, as conducted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries engaged in ideological conflict, is that it creates a morally arbitrary hierarchy of victims that can then be used to justify the worst moral transgressions against the "other."
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38Liberals, Revolutionaries, and ResponsibilityEthics and International Affairs 16 (2): 124-126. 2002.This brief response cannot adequately address all of the challenging issues raised by Robert Meister in his reply, so I hope only to clarify our main points of contention that will likely continue beyond this exchange.
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33Activist political theory and the challenge of global justiceEthics and Global Politics 6 (2): 63-73. 2013.On the morning of April 24, 2013, more than 6,000 people filed into the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh, mainly to work in five garment factories that produced clothing for global retail firms, such as Loblaw, Primark, Joe Fresh, Benetton, Mango, Matalan, Bonmarche, and The Children’s Place. Only a day earlier, major cracks had appeared in the building and were inspected, prompting a brief evacuation. The next day, despite a police-issued evacuation order, the building owne…Read more
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15The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders, Richard Ned Lebow , 424 pp., $75.00 cloth, $26.99 paper (review)Ethics and International Affairs 18 (2): 104-106. 2004.
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51Images of justice: Justice as a bond, a boundary and a balanceJournal of Political Philosophy 6 (1). 1998.
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16Images of Justice: Justice as a Bond, a Boundary and a BalanceJournal of Political Philosophy 6 (1): 1-26. 2002.
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64Political Friendship among PeoplesJournal of International Political Theory 5 (1): 41-58. 2009.Does the concept of political friendship make sense, and does cultivating political friendship among peoples strengthen universal peace? This article provides an Aristotelian account of political friendship as distinct from but analogous to personal friendship. Political friendships, founded on mutual recognition and respect, are characterized by consensual agreement about the fundamental terms of cooperation. While promoting such political friendship at the global level would be a measure to st…Read more
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186Colonialism as Structural Injustice: Historical Responsibility and Contemporary RedressJournal of Political Philosophy 19 (3): 261-281. 2011.
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125Colonialism as Structural Injustice: Historical Responsibility and Contemporary RedressJournal of Political Philosophy 19 (3): 261-281. 2011.
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49Structural injustice and alienation: a reply to my criticsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (4): 544-555. 2020.
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94Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Structural TransformationEthics and Global Politics 11 (1): 42-57. 2018.
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71Justice and Reconciliation in World PoliticsCambridge University Press. 2017.Calls for justice and reconciliation in response to political catastrophes are widespread in contemporary world politics. What implications do these normative strivings have in relation to colonial injustice? Examining cases of colonial war, genocide, forced sexual labor, forcible incorporation, and dispossession, Lu demonstrates that international practices of justice and reconciliation have historically suffered from, and continue to reflect, colonial, statist and other structural biases. The …Read more
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