UID:
edocfu_9959229986802883
Format:
1 online resource (232 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-99639-3
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1-135-99640-7
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1-280-04896-4
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0-203-33519-8
Series Statement:
Routledge innovations in political theory ; 13
Content:
Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation?Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration among nation-states will help ensure that all persons can lead a decent life.Cabrera considers both the views of those political philosophers who say we have much stronger obligations to help our co-citizens than foreigners a
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Political Theory of Global Justice: A cosmopolitan case for the world state; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Jericho road; 1 Priorities; Introduction; The constitutive approach; The poor fit objection; Undercutting; The universal-particularism approach; Impositions; Side-effects; The intimacy approach; Distinguishing between obligations to intimates; 2 Consequences; Introduction; Consequentialism and moral cosmopolitanism; A utilitarian argument for cosmopolitan distributions; The moral heroism objection; Basic wants utilitarianism
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Moral heroism and distanceThe impermissible sacrifices objection; Hybrid consequentialism; Conclusion; 3 Moral reciprocity and self-development rights; Introduction; Rawls's rejection of cosmopolitanism; The Rawlsian interdependence approach; Interdependence and isolated states; Domestic interaction and immigration; The moral reciprocity approach and self-development; Global equal opportunity and self-development rights; The case for free movement; Culture and universality in self-development rights; Conclusion; 4 The cosmopolitan imperative; Introduction; The Westphalian system
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Sovereignty and universal rightsAn ideal sovereign states system; Westphalian biases against cosmopolitan distributions; An integrated alternative; An obligation to create just institutions; Conclusion; 5 Democratic distance; Introduction; The world state ideal; The democratic distance objection; The integrated alternative elaborated; Citizen efficacy and substate groups; Majority tyranny and trans-state factions; Tyranny of the impoverished global majority; Conclusion; 6 Citizenship, armed tyranny and the democratic peace; Introduction; The citizenship objection; Civic nations
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The armed tyranny objectionThe civil war objection; Conclusion; 7 Possibilities; Introduction; Globalization; Trans-state exchange and EU constitutionalization; Trans-state exchange and the WTO; The (possible) constitutionalization of the Americas; Global possibilities; Fix it; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-77066-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-70022-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203335192
