International law and the limits of global justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11426072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saladin Meckled‐garcia (0000-0002-8275-5161, corresponding author), Saladin Meckled-Garcia |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 2073-2088 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0260210511000325 |
| OpenAlex | W2127979875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
There are two central theses to this article, the first is that a special kind of governance authority is needed for principles of distributive social justice (‘social justice’ from now on) to be applicable to any sphere of human action. The second is that international law does not and cannot represent that kind of governance authority. It is not ‘social justice-apt’, in my terminology. This is due to the limits inherent in the statist character of international law, a character that underlies the point and purpose of international law in the first place. Putting these together, one can conclude that international law cannot be used to govern the global order according to those principles of social justice that liberal theorists typically defend in the domestic context. This shows that if the cosmopolitan project of extending social justice to the global arena does not find an alternative form of governance for the international order (the problem of ‘cosmopolitan coordination’) it ceases to be a viable project
Comparative law · Corporate governance · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Global governance · International law · Law and economics · Philosophy of law · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification
Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination
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On the Very Idea of Cosmopolitan Justice
Some Thoughts on the Making of International Law
World Poverty and Human Rights
Egalitarian challenges to global egalitarianism
Rawlsian Global Justice
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |