Issue 29.3
Briefly Noted
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, Sarah Chayes (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015), 272 pp., $26.95 cloth. In Thieves of State, Sarah Chayes offers an engaging and persuasive analysis of kleptocracies as a historical and contemporary root of insecurity and violence. Her narrative prose, use of personal anecdotes, and ability […]
Fall 2015 (Issue 29.3)
This issue includes an essay by Richard Goldstone on global ethical standards for international judges; a book symposium on Michael Blake’s Justice and Foreign Policy, featuring contributions from Anna Stilz, Pablo Gilabert, Simon Caney, and Richard Miller, with a reply from Blake; a feature by Holly Lawford-Smith on ethical consumption and individual obligations; a review essay by David Runciman on democracy in the age of the Internet; and book reviews by Mark Rigstad, Kenneth Rodman, and George Rupp.
Michael Blake’s Border Controls
Michael Blake’s rules for global justice are too rigid. They misinterpret the commitment to the moral equality of all humans everywhere, which is supposed to be their ultimate foundation.
Justice and Foreign Policy: A Reply to My Critics
Sustained debate on the ethical dimensions of foreign policy is no longer a rarity. I thank Caney, Gilabert, Miller, and Stilz for their arguments, and look forward to the debates to come.
Unethical Consumption and Obligations to Signal
To bring about an end to the harms involved in the production of everyday goods, what should the individual do?
Coercion, Justification, and Inequality: Defending Global Egalitarianism
I share Blake’s commitment to universal liberal values and also his commitment to autonomy. We part ways, however, over the question of when egalitarian ideals of distributive justice apply.
Global Moral Egalitarianism and Global Distributive Egalitarianism
A global egalitarian approach is better for characterizing the wrongs involved in international exploitation than a global sufficientarian approach.
Against Democratic Interventionism
While we should persuade foreigners to democratize, we have no right to forcibly impose a democratic political order on them so long as their current arrangements manifest reasonable reciprocity.
