International Liberalism and Distributive Justice

A Survey of Recent Thought

Bibliographic Data

ID6411289
AuthorsCharles R Beitz (Bowdoin College, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume51
Issue2
Pages269-296
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0043887100008194
OpenAlexW1944723931
LanguageEN
Citations received57
References cited47

In recent years there has been a renewal of interest in the liberal tradition in international thought, with particular attention being paid to liberal conceptions of international distributive justice. This article describes and criticizes three different approaches to international distributive justice represented in the recent literature: (1) social liberalism, which takes the nation-state as basic and argues for international transfers to the extent necessary to sustain just domestic institutions; (2) laisser-faire liberalism, which, in its redistributivist variant, aims to rectify injustices arising from the unequal appropriation of natural resources; and (3) cosmopolitan liberalism, which takes each individual's interests as equally deserving of concern in the design of global (and sectional) institutions

Appropriation · Classical liberalism · Distributive justice · Distributive property · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social contract · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics