内容简介
Introduction
Rawls' Law of Peoples
The argument
Aims
Structure
Part I
1 The Cosmopolitan Critique
Rawls' 'Libertarian turn'
A flawed Law of Peoples?
Peoples, not persons
The rejection of global redistribution
Rereading Rawls
2 Elucidating the ’Libertarian' Law of Peoples
Four reasons why
Fraternity
Reciprocity
Rawls' political constructivism
The principle of redress
The social minimum and its international analogue
Conclusion
3 A Duty with No Obligations?
Burdened societies
Self-determination
Political autonomy
A principle of transition
A mixed reception
Conclusion
PartⅡ
4 Considering the Capability Perspective
The justification of the duty
The duty of assistance as a pillar of international justice
The duty to burdened societies
The extent of the duty
Rawls' positive liberty?
Sen's idea of justice
Sen's critique of transcendental institutionalism
The capability critique
Rawlsian capabilities?
Conclusion
5 Conceptualizing State Capability: The Freedom of Peoples
Elaborating the international minimum
Beyond negative and positive
From two concepts to a triadic relation
Rawls' conception of freedom
Burdened societies' obstacles to freedom
Conclusion
6 Actualizing State Capability
Rawls' explanatory nationalism
Sen and Landes on development
The colonial legacy for political culture
A robust and rounded duty
State builders
System analysis
Conclusion
Part Ⅲ
7 A Duty in Equilibrium?
The foundations of a realistic utopia
Destabilizing assistance?
Intolerant advice?
Conclusion
8 Creeping Cosmopolitanism?
Converging with the cosmopolitans
Normative difference
Difference and toleration
A response to Sen
Toleration vs assistance
Conclusion
9 Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index