This work consists of two parts: "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited"p̧ublished in 1997a̧nd "The Law of Peoples"a̧ reworking of an article published in 1993. Taken ...

Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral position. It urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality and ...

The Philosophy of Human Rights brings together an extensive collection of classical and contemporary writings on the topic of human rights, including genocide, ethnic cleansing ...

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his ...

Perpetual Peace is an important essay by Immanuel Kant from 1795 which was originally published as Project for a Perpetual Peace. The original concept of perpetual peace is for ...

In From the Margins of Globalization, Neve Gordon assembles work from leading intellectuals and activists in the field of human rights. Each essay in this volume discusses a ...

This indispensable research companion widens the perspective of moral consideration in international relations from 'ethics and international relations' to 'ethics in ...

Providing a critical examination of the political philosophy and international thought of the contemporary American philosopher John Rawls, this book shows an account of Rawls ...