Taking back control

Abstract

ABSTRACTContemporary egalitarian political philosophy has become increasingly interested in the ways the international order may protect or undermine states’ capacities to deliver domestic egalitarianism. Yet it has not always thought through the complexity or dynamism of interactions between domestic and international politics. These problems can be usefully understood through the problematic the intellectual historian István Hont called jealousy of trade and used to understand eighteenth century European political and philosophical debates. Isaac Nakhimovsky’s work on Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s closed commercial state is particularly helpful given the similarity of some of Fichte’s commitments to those of contemporary internationalising egalitarians.