scholarly journals Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inés Valdez
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Social Conflict

scholarly journals Climate Change, Environmental Security and Global Justice

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Solomon E. Salako
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Atmospheric Concentration ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Security Issues

There is an international consensus that climate change is caused by human activities which substantially increase the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.The ill-effects of climate change are droughts which adversely affect the global poor who are engaged in agriculture; storm surges which destroy local infrastructure, housing and crops; and the rise of sea levels which adversely affect the inhabitants of small island states which could eventually be totally submerged. Military strategists and intelligence analysts are preparing for future conflicts likely to be caused by environmental security issues.The objects of this article are: (i) to evaluate the ill-effects of climate change as a matter of global justice, (ii) to consider whether future generations have the right not to suffer from the ill-effects of climate change, and if so, (iii) to evaluate the relevant conceptions of global justice, and (iv) to assess critically whether international law provides effective preventive responses to climate change and environmental security threats.Finally, a monist-naturalist conception of global justice privileging human dignity as one of its guiding principles is proffered as a solution to the problems raised by the mechanisms of dealing with the ill-effects of climate change and the attendant environmental security issues under international law.

scholarly journals Reparations — Legally Justified and Sine qua non for Global Justice, Peace and Security

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Wittmann
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Financial Compensation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Illegal Acts

The paper assesses current rising reparations claims for the Maafa/ Maangamizi (‘African holocaust,’ comprising transatlantic slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism) from two angles. First, it explores the connectivity of reparations and global justice, peace and security. Second, it discusses how the claim is justified in international law. The concept of reparations in international law is also explored, revealing that reparations cannot be limited to financial compensation due to the nature of the damage and international law prescriptions. Comprehensive reparations based in international law require the removal of structures built on centuries of illegal acts and aggression, in the forms of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism. Reparations must also lead to the restitution of sovereignty to African and indigenous peoples globally. They are indispensable to halt the destruction of the earth as human habitat, caused by the violent European cultural, political, socio-economic system known as capitalism that is rooted in transatlantic slavery. 

Global Justice, Global Governance, and International Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 364-370
Author(s):  
Maurice Kamto
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
International Level ◽  
Global Level ◽  
New Era ◽  
Conflicting Interests

The chapter comments on Eyal Benvenisti’s discussion of international law’s contribution to global justice. It puts forward that global justice at the international level can only be the result of a permanent bargain and a compromise between the multiple and conflicting interests among states. It emphasizes that better governance at the global level involving the sharing of the policy-making and decision-making, accountability, the rule of law, and sanctions can help improve global justice. It concludes by suggesting that if international law could contribute to the advent of global justice in a move from ‘Responsibility to protect’ to ‘Responsibility to develop’, it would open a new era for its rise amongst nations and peoples.

scholarly journals Introduction – International law and global justice: a happy marriage

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 2035-2041 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA VALENTINI ◽  
TIZIANA TORRESI
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Happy Marriage

scholarly journals Cosmopolitism, Global Justice, and International Law

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-684
Author(s):  
ROLAND PIERIK ◽  
WOUTER WERNER
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Sovereign Equality ◽  
Central Elements

Along with the exploding attention to globalization, issues of global justice have become central elements in political philosophy. After decades in which debates were dominated by a state-centric paradigm, current debates in political philosophy also address issues of global inequality, global poverty, and the moral foundations of international law. As recent events have demonstrated, these issues also play an important role in the practice of international law. In fields such as peace and security, economic integration, environmental law, and human rights, international lawyers are constantly confronted with questions of global justice and international legitimacy. This special issue contains four papers which address an important element of this emerging debate on cosmopolitan global justice, with much relevance for international law: the principle of sovereign equality, global economic inequality, and environmental law.

Transnational Migration Contesting Borders of Responsibility for Justice

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 799-814
Author(s):  
Zuzana Uhde
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Structural Group ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Transnational Migrants

The article focuses on structural causes of migration, putting forward an argument that such analysis sheds light on key shortcomings of today’s global geopolitical regime. First the author analyzes structural causes of transnational migration in global capitalism. She argues that transnational migrants represent a structural group of people who find themselves in a similar position in relation to social structures of current global economic architecture even though they do not necessarily have a collective identity. Second, the author discusses the methodological and practical limits of the current nation-state defined framework of responsibility for global justice which does not respond to structural causes of transnational migration and reproduces the internal contradictions of the international human rights regime. Following this critical analysis, the author focuses on the possibilities of extraterritorial obligations for justice, which are partly embedded in the current international law. Then she outlines an argument for a differentiated responsibility for global justice.

scholarly journals Neo-Kantian Cosmopolitanism and International Law: Modest Practicality?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-629
Author(s):  
Peter Sutch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Political Theory

AbstractThis article explores the practical approach to global justice advocated by the cosmopolitan political theorists Pogge, Beitz and Buchanan. Using a comparative exposition it outlines their reliance on international law and on human rights law in particular. The essay explores the neo-Kantian influence on the practical approach and offers an original critique of this trend in contemporary international political theory.

scholarly journals Ethics and international law: integrating the global justice project(s)

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Ratner
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Just World ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost

Academic discourse on global justice is at an all-time high. Within ethics and international law, scholars are undertaking new inquiries into age-old questions of building a just world order. Ethics – within political and moral philosophy – poses fundamental questions about responsibilities at the global level and produces a tightly reasoned set of frameworks regarding world order. International law, with its focus on legal norms and institutional arrangements, provides a path, as well as illuminates the obstacles, to implementing theories of the right or of the good. Yet despite the complementarity of these two projects, neither is drawing what it should from the other. The result is ethical scholarship that often avoids, or even misinterprets, the law; and law that marginalizes ethics even as it recognizes the importance of justice. The cost of this avoidance is a set of missed opportunities for both fields. This article seeks to help transform the limited dialogue between philosophers and international lawyers into a meaningful collaboration. Through a critical stocktaking of the contributions of the two disciplines, examining where they do and do not engage with the other, it offers an appraisal of the causes and costs of separation and an argument for an interdisciplinary approach.

Trade Justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Close Inspection ◽  
International Commerce ◽  
International Trading

The international trading system remains a locus of fierce social conflict. The protesters who besiege gatherings of its managers—most famously on the streets of Seattle at the turn of the millennium—regard it with suspicion and hostility, as a threat to their livelihoods, an enemy of global justice, and their grievances are exploited by populist statesmen peddling their own mercantilist agendas. If we are to support the trading system, we must first assure ourselves that it can withstand moral scrutiny. We must ensure that it works for and not against those whom it envelops; that it serves to emancipate, not ensnare. While there is an extensive literature addressing the economic and legal aspects of trade, the ethical questions its raises have escaped close inspection. This book contributes to resetting the balance. It grapples with moral quandaries relating to world politics, globalization, and international commerce, and recognizes that resolving these problems is essential if we are to move toward a world in which trade justice is a reality.

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