Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice

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Christian Barry, Thomas W. Pogge
Wiley, Feb 3, 2006 - Philosophy - 360 pages
This book helps readers identify feasible and morally plausible reforms of global institutional arrangements and international organizations.
  • A distinctive, practically oriented contribution to debates about global justice.
  • Helps readers to examine the fairness of global rules and institutions.
  • Integrates philosophical thinking about normative responsibility with discussion of practical dilemmas concerning organizations such as the WTO, and rules governing the use of force internationally.
  • Brings together original articles by political philosophers, legal theorists, and economists.
  • Considers the aims of global justice, the institutional arrangements that are required to realise them, and the allocation of responsibilities to promote the required institutional reforms.

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    About the author (2006)

    Christian Barry is Editor of Ethics and International Affairs. His recent publications include Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle (2005) and Redistribution (2004).

    Thomas W. Pogge is Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University as well as Professor of Philosophy at Columbia and Oslo Universities. His recent publications include World Poverty and Human Rights (2002), Real World Justice (2005), and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (2005).

    Bibliographic information

    TitleGlobal Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice
    EditorsChristian Barry, Thomas W. Pogge
    Editionrevised
    PublisherWiley, 2006
    ISBN1405130105, 9781405130103
    Length360 pages
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    Philosophy / General
      
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