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Huw Lloyd Williams looks at the critical debate surrounding John Rawls' The Law of Peoples. He responds to the work of cosmopolitan theorists and Amartya Sen, arguing that Rawls offers a persuasive and prescient moral approach to issues of global poverty and development.
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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International political theory |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230307179 |
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Huw Lloyd Williams looks at the critical debate surrounding John Rawls' The Law of Peoples. He responds to the work of cosmopolitan theorists and Amartya Sen, arguing that Rawls offers a persuasive and prescient moral approach to issues of global poverty and development. "Clear, judicious, well-informed, timely and argumentatively creative, this book advances Rawls scholarship, laying to rest influential misunderstandings of The Law of Peoples and imaginatively showing how to more fully and charitably specify the content of one of its core principles. What emerges is a principled vision of a robust program of assistance, aimed at building the institutional and political capabilities of impoverished societies currently at the margins of international society." - David Reidy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, USA "This is an excellent, well-written, scholarly piece of work, developing an original argument and making a substantial contribution to Rawls' scholarship. There has recently been a greater willingness to see merit in Rawls's international theory, and Williams contributes in a constructive and original way to this trend. In developing a robust account of the duty of assistance, he explores a number of literatures and authors, weaving them together to tell a coherent and interesting story." - Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230277823, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
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9780230277823 9780230307179 : 0230307175 : |
| CLC: | F114.4 |
| Contents: | Introduction PART I The Cosmopolitan Critique Elucidating the 'Libertarian' Law of Peoples A Duty with No Obligations? PART II Considering the Capability Perspective Conceptualizing State Capability: The Freedom of Peoples Actualising State Capability PART III A Duty in Equilibrium Creeping Cosmopolitanism? Conclusions. |