Global justice and international economic law
Subtitle: three takes
By: Frank J. Garcia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781107348295; 9781139410908; 9781107342040; 9781107031920
Subjects: LAW; Distributive justice; Foreign trade regulation; Military; Law; Economic aspects; Law and globalization
Description: For centuries, international trade has been seen as essential to the wealth and power of nations. More recently we have started to understand its problematic role as an engine of distributive justice. In this compelling book Frank J. Garcia proposes a new way to evaluate, construct and manage international trade - one that is based on norms of economic justice, comparative advantage and national interest. Garcia examines three ways to conceptualize the problem of trade and global justice, drawn from Rawlsian liberalism, communitarianism and consent theory. These approaches illustrate specific issues of importance to the way global justice has been theorized, offering a pluralistic mode of arguing for global justice and highlighting the unique modes of discourse we employ when engaging with global justice and their implications for conceptualizing and arguing the problem. Garcia suggests a new direction for trade agreements built around truly consensual trade negotiations and the kind of international economic system they would structure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Take one : international justice, or global justice as the foreign policy of liberal states; title: Take two : globalization and the possibility of a global community of justice; title: Take three : global justice as consensual exchange : consent, oppression and the nature of trade itself; title: Conclusion.