Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?

John Rawls is considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls’s theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls’s The Law of Peoples historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of global economic justice, and its normative theory of liberal foreign policy. The book will set the terms of the debate on The Law of Peoples for years to come, thereby shaping the broader debates about global justice.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading Rawls's the Law of Peoples (pages 3–18): Rex Martin and David A. ReidyChapter 2 Uniting What Right Permits with What Interest Prescribes: Rawls's Law of Peoples in Context (pages 19–37): David BoucherChapter 3 Rawls's Peoples (pages 38–55): Philip PettitChapter 4 Cultural Imperialism and ‘Democratic Peace’ (pages 59–75): Catherine AudardChapter 5 The Problem of Decent Peoples (pages 76–94): Kok?Chor TanChapter 6 Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian (pages 95–113): Leif WenarChapter 7 Human Rights as Moral Claim Rights (pages 117–133): Wilfried Hinsch and Markus StepaniansChapter 8 Rawls's Narrow Doctrine of Human Rights (pages 134–149): Alistair M. MacleodChapter 9 Taking the Human out of Human Rights (pages 150–168): Allen BuchananChapter 10 Political Authority and Human Rights (pages 169–188): David A. ReidyChapter 11 Collective Responsibility and International Inequality in the Law of Peoples (pages 191–205): David MillerChapter 12 Do Rawls's Two Theories of Justice Fit Together? (pages 206–225): Thomas PoggeChapter 13 Rawls on International Distributive Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look (pages 226–242): Rex MartinChapter 14 Distributive Justice and the Law of Peoples (pages 243–260): Samuel FreemanChapter 15 Are Human Rights Mainly Implemented by Intervention? (pages 263–277): James W. NickelChapter 16 A Human Right to Democracy? Legitimacy and Intervention (pages 278–298): Alyssa R. BernsteinChapter 17 Justice, Stability, and Toleration in a Federation of Well?Ordered Peoples (pages 299–317): Andreas Follesdal