1st Edition

A League of Democracies Cosmopolitanism, Consolidation Arguments, and Global Public Goods

By John J. Davenport Copyright 2019
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

In the 21st century, as the peoples of the world grow more closely tied together, the question of real transnational government will finally have to be faced. The end of the Cold War has not brought the peace, freedom from atrocities, and decline of tyranny for which we hoped. It is also clearer now that problems like economic risks, tax havens, and environmental degradation arising with... Read more

Introduction: Our Opportunity to Secure a Democratic Future  1. A United Democratic League as a Cosmopolitan Idea  2. From the Federalists to a Global Consolidation Argument  3. Market Limits and Global Public Goods  4. The Failure of the United Nations to Deliver the Original Global Goods  5. How to Design an Effective League of Democracies  6. Standard Objections, Alternatives, and Replies to Critics

Biography

John J. Davenport is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, where he directed the Peace & Justice Studies program from 2014 to 2018. In addition to two monographs on topics in moral psychology, and two co-edited collections on Kierkegaard and virtue ethics, John has published several essays on just war theory, the responsibility to protect, and the idea of democratic federation (as well as other topics in democratic theory). He is now preparing books on a Habermasian argument for a universal right to democracy, justice as stewardship of public capital, the errors of political libertarianism, and the need for a new constitutional convention to fix the United States.