International Development and Human Aid

Principles, Norms and Institutions for the Global Sphere

Paulo Barcelos, Gabriele de Angelis (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3259-7 (ISBN)

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Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays assesses fields including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund and the global responsibility of the EU.

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

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).

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Justice in a Complex World: An IntroductionPaulo Barcelos

Part I Human Rights and the World Economy: Questions of Scope

2. The (Difficult) Universality of Economic and Social RightsSylvie Loriaux

3. Economic Justice and the Minimally Good Human Life Account of NeedsNicole Hassoun

Part II The Applicability of Global Principles – Some Contemporary Dilemmas

4. Toward Another Kind of Development PracticeJulian Culp

5. Three Approaches to Global Health Care Justice: Rejecting the Positive/Negative Rights DistinctionPeter G. N. West-Oram

6. Restitution and Distributive JusticeGeorge 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 CERFAlexander Brown

8. Global Justice and the Mission of the European UnionPhilippe Van Parijs

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Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-3259-X / 147443259X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3259-7 / 9781474432597
Zustand	Neuware