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National Responsibility and Global Justice (Hardcover)
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National Responsibility and Global Justice (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Political Theory
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Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary
political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including
original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in
applied political theory. The series will contain works of
outstanding quality with no restriction as to approach or subject
matter.
Series Editors: Will Kymlicka, David Miller, and Alan Ryan.
This book presents a non-cosmopolitan theory of global justice. In
contrast to theories that seek to extend principles of social
justice, such as equality of opportunity or resources, to the world
as a whole, it argues that in a world made up of self-determining
national communities, a different conception is needed. The book
presents and defends an account of national responsibility which
entails that nations may justifiably claim the benefits that their
decisions and policies produce, while also being held liable for
harms that they inflict on other peoples. Such collective
responsibility extends to responsibility for the national past, so
the present generation may owe redress to those who have been
harmed by the actions of their predecessors. Global justice,
therefore, must be understood not in terms of equality, but in
terms of a minimum set of basic rights that belong to human beings
everywhere. Where these rights are being violated or threatened,
remedial responsibility may fall on outsiders. The book considers
how this responsibility should be allocated, and how far citizens
of democratic societies must limit their pursuit of domestic
objectives in order to discharge their global obligations.
The book presents a systematic challenge to existing theories of
global justice withoutretreating to a narrow nationalism that
denies that we have any responsibilities to the world's poor. It
combines discussion of practical questions such as immigration and
foreign aid with philosophical exploration of, for instance, the
different senses of responsibility, and the grounds of human
rights.
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