International Development and Human Aid (eBook, PDF)

Principles, Norms and Institutions for the Global Sphere
Redaktion: Barcelos, Paulo; Angelis, Gabriele de

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Produktbeschreibung

Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice?These 8 essays mirror and expand the complexity of contemporary discussions on cosmopolitanism and global justice, focusing on a normative study of the global institutional order with suggestions of direct ways to reform it. They assess schemes of worldwide distributive justice and the mechanisms required to discharge the global duties that the theories establish. Assesses the workability of philosophical conceptions of justice for the global sphereAddresses fields including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the United Nations' Central Emergency Response Fund and the global responsibility of the European UnionFor political philosophers, political scientists and sociologists working on the philosophy of international relations, global ethics, global justice, humanitarian aid and development politics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474414487
• Artikelnr.: 50401771

Autorenporträt

Paulo Barcelos is a researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the same university. Gabriele De Angelis is Researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon (NOVA).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Justice in a Complex World: An
Introduction, Paulo Barcelos; Part I Human Rights and the World Economy:
Questions of Scope: 2. The (Difficult) Universality of Economic and Social
Rights, Sylvie Loriaux; 3. Economic Justice and the Minimally Good Human
Life Account of Needs, Nicole Hassoun; Part II The Applicability of Global
Principles - Some Contemporary Dilemmas: 4. Toward Another Kind of
Development Practice, Julian Culp; 5. Three Approaches to Global Health
Care Justice: Rejecting the Positive/Negative Rights Distinction, Peter G.
N. West-Oram; 6. Restitution and Distributive Justice, George F. DeMartino
and Jonathan D. Moyer; Part III Justice and International Institutions: 7.
Narrow Versus Comprehensive Justification in Humanitarian Aid: A Case Study
of the CERF, Alexander Brown; 8. Global Justice and the Mission of the
European Union, Philippe Van Parijs; Index.