Rawls's law of peoples : a realistic utopia? / edited by Rex Martin and David A. Reidy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background and structure -- Cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and universalism : questions of priority and coherence -- On human rights -- On global economic justice -- On liberal democratic foreign policy.

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John Rawls is considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls's The Law of Peoples historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of glo.