Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy
Abstract
Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among all human beings. On Global Justice shifts the terms of this debate and shows how both views are unsatisfactory. Stressing humanity’s collective ownership of the earth, Mathias Risse offers a new theory of global distributive justice?—?what he calls pluralist internationalism?—?where in different contexts, different principles of justice apply.
Citation
Risse, Mathias. On Global Justice. Princeton University Press, 2012.