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Justice for All: The Promise of Democracy in the Global Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Extract

Two pronounced features of modern globalization are an emerging global human rights culture and the growing trend toward democratization. In her new book, Carol Gould integrates these two features to construct an interactive approach to the core democratic values of justice and political participation meant for an interconnected global world.

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2015 

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NOTES

1 For a broader debate on this issues, see my Reciprocity, Closed-Impartiality and National Borders: Framing (and Extending) the Debate on Global Justice,” Social Philosophy Today 27 (2011), pp. 199216 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Michael Blake, Justice and Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); Blake, Michael, “Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 30, no. 3 (2001), pp. 257–96Google Scholar; Richard Miller, Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010); Nagel, Thomas, “The Problem of Global Justice,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 33, no. 2 (2005), pp. 113–47Google Scholar; and Wellman, Christopher, “Relational Facts in Liberal Political Theory: Is there Magic in the Pronoun ‘My’?” Ethics 110, no. 3 (2000), pp. 537–62Google Scholar. Though a liberal nationalist, Miller sees hope for global solidarity in global social movements clamoring for a more just and equitable world. See Miller, Globalizing Justice, chapter 9.

3 Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations of International Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Andrew Kuper, Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); and Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).

4 For more on this, see my forthcoming “Beyond Preventive Force: Just Peace as Preventive Non-Intervention,” in Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer Ramos, eds., Preventive Force: Targeted Killing and Technology (New York: NYU Press, 2016).

5 Runciman, David, “Rescuing Democracy in the Age of the Internet,” Ethics & International Affairs 29, no. 3 (2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Ira Katznelson, “Forum: Anxieties of Democracy,” Boston Review, September 8, 2015.

7 See the entry on “Complex Emergency” by Susan P. Murphy, Encyclopedia of Global Justice, ed. Deen K. Chatterjee (Dodrecht, Neth.: Springer, 2011), pp. 174-76.

8 For and excellent study of how the standard concepts such as “sustainability” need radical reframing in view of the complex challenges of climate change in global environmental governance, see Melinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig, The End of Sustainability: Resilience, Narrative, and Climate Change in Environmental Governance (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, forthcoming).

9 For a strong articulation of how a global solidarity movement can empower relational justice embedded in interactive democracy, see Amartya Sen's response to my article cited in Note 1 above. Sen, The Idea of Justice: A Reply,” Social Philosophy Today 27 (2011), pp. 233–39Google Scholar. Portions of the essay draw on my Human Rights and Democratic Legitimacy: Navigating the Challenges in a Pluralistic World,” Good Society 16, no. 2 (2007), pp. 4144 Google Scholar.