1st Edition

Problems Of International Justice

By Steven Luper-foy Copyright 1989
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1988. Reflection on the requirements of justice among the various national communities is rudimentary and unsophisticated as compared with thought about justice within states. Little has been written on the former topic until recent years, aside from an occasional attempt to defend just statecraft as a way to end the bruta

Preface -- Introduction: Global Distributive Justice -- World Resources and Distributive Justice -- Justice and Distribution of the World's Resources -- International Distributive Justice -- The Uneasy Case for Global Redistribution -- The Obligation to Assist the Needy -- Hunger, Needs, and Rights -- World Hunger, Benevolence, and Justice -- The Responsibilities of International Corporations -- The Moral Obligations of Multinational Corporations -- Exorcising the Demon of Cultural Relativism -- Justice and the Global Environment -- Environmental Ethics and International Justice -- The Deep Ecology Movement -- The Legitimate Use of Violence -- Foreign Interventionism and States' Rights -- The Theory of Aggression -- The Reagan Doctrine in Nicaragua -- Foreign Intervention -- Deterrence and the Threat of Nuclear Reprisal -- War and Nuclear Deterrence -- Prisoners and Chickens -- Terrorism -- Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses -- Understanding Terrorism -- Justice and World Government -- World Government, Security, and Global Justice -- Moral Progress

Biography

Steven Luper-Foy is associate professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity University. He is editor of The Possibility of Knowledge (1987) and guest editor of an issue of Synthese covering the internalismjexternalism controversy -.in epistemology.