Synopses & Reviews
The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the twentieth century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum conditions for coexistence in a pluralist, conflictual world. Justice was seen either as secondary or sometimes even as a challenge to order. Recent developments have forced a reassessment of this position.
This book sets current concerns within a broad historical and theoretical context; explores the depth and scope of this presumed solidarism amidst the difficulties of acting on the basis of a more strongly articulated liberal position; and underscores the complexity and abiding tensions inherent in the relationship between order and justice. Chapters examine a wide range of state and transnational perspectives on order and justice, including those from China, India, Russia, the United States, and the Islamic world. Other chapters investigate how the order-justice relationship is mediated within major international institutions, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the global financial institutions.
Review
"Editors John Lewis Gaddis, Andrew Hurrell, and Rosemary Foot make an outstanding contribution to international ethics in this volume by bringing together essays that appraise competing philosophical oreintations to order and justice and reassess how these different perspectives apply to the structures and processes of the contemporary international system."--Ethics and International Affairs
Synopsis
The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the twentieth century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum conditions for coexistence in a pluralist, conflictual world. Justice was seen either as secondary or sometimes even as a challenge to order. Recent developments have forced a reassessment of this position.
This book sets current concerns within a broad historical and theoretical context; explores the depth and scope of this presumed solidarism amidst the difficulties of acting on the basis of a more strongly articulated liberal position; and underscores the complexity and abiding tensions inherent in the relationship between order and justice. Chapters examine a wide range of state and transnational perspectives on order and justice, including those from China, India, Russia, the United States, and the Islamic world. Other chapters investigate how the order-justice relationship is mediated within major international institutions, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the global financial institutions.
About the Author
Laurence Rosen is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Princeton University.
Table of Contents
2. Order/Justice Issues at the United Nations,
Adam Roberts3. Order and Justice in the International Trade System, John Toye
4. Order, Justice, the IMF and the World Bank, Ngaire Woods
5. Order vs. Justice: An American Foreign Policy Dilemma, John Lewis Gaddis
6. Order and Justice: The Russian Perspective, Neil MacFarlane
7. Order and Justice Beyond the Nation-state: Europe's competing paradigms, Justine Lacroix and Kalypso Nicolaïdis
8. An Uneasy Engagement: Chinese Ideas of Global Order and Justice in Historical Perspective, Rana Mitter
9. Order and Justice: The Indian Perspective, Kanti Bajpai
19. Order and Justice: The Islamic Perspective, James Piscatori