On Rawls, development and global justice
Subtitle: the freedom of peoples
By: Huw Lloyd Williams
Series: International political theory series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780230277823
Subjects: Human rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights; Philosophy; International relations; Justice; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; International law
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: PART I; title: The Cosmopolitan Critique; title: Elucidating the "Libertarian" Law of Peoples; title: A Duty with No Obligations?; title: PART II; title: Considering the Capability Perspective; title: Conceptualizing State Capability: The Freedom of Peoples; title: Actualising State Capability; title: PART III; title: A Duty in Equilibrium; title: Creeping Cosmopolitanism?; title: Conclusions.