Rawls's law of peoples: a realistic utopia?

Abstract

Notes on Contributors. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Background and Structure:. 1. Introduction: Rex Martin (University of Kansas) and David Reidy (University of Tennessee). 2. Uniting What Interest Prescribes with What Right Permits: Rawls's Law of Peoples in Context: David Boucher (Cardiff). 3. Rawls's Peoples: Philip Pettit (Princeton). Part II: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Universalism: Questions of Priority and Coherence:. 4. Cultural Imperialism and Peace.: Catherine Audard (LSE, UK). 5. The Problem of Decent Peoples: Kok-Chor Tan (Univ. of Pennsylvania). 6. Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian: Leif Wenar (Sheffield, UK). Part III: On Human Rights. 7. Human Rights as Moral Claim-Rights: Wilfried Hinsch and Markus Stepanians (Univ. of Saarland, Germany). 8. Rawls's Narrow Doctrine of Human Rights: Alistair Macleod (Queen's Univ., Canada). 9. Taking the Human Out of Human Rights: Allen Buchanan (Duke Univ., USA). 10. Political Authority and Human Rights: David Reidy(University of Tennessee). Part IV: On Global Economic Justice. 11. Collective Responsibility and International Inequality in The Law of Peoples: David Miller (Oxford). 12. Do Rawls's Two Theories of Justice Fit Together?: Thomas Pogge (Columbia, USA). 13. Rawls on International Distributive Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look: Rex Martin (University of Kansas, Lawrence). 14. Distributive Justice and The Law of Peoples: Samuel Freeman (Univ. of Pennsylvania). Part V: On Liberal Democratic Foreign Policy. 15. Rawls's Theory of Human Rights in Light of Contemporary Human Rights Law and Practice: Jim Nickel (Arizona State University College of Law). 16. A Human Right to Democracy? Rawls's Law of Peoples on Governmental Legitimacy and Humanitarian Intervention: Alyssa Bernstein (Ohio Univ). 17. Justice, Stability and Toleration in a Federation of Well-Ordered Peoples: Andreas Follesdal (Univ. of Oslo, Norway). Index...