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A Role for Coercive Force in the Theory of Global Justice?

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New Waves in Global Justice

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Global Justice theory is characterized by an uncompromising commitment to the universal validity of a wide range of social, economic, and political rights. These rights are held by individual human beings irrespective of the material, social, or political conditions they happen to live under. Importantly, these rights also correlate with bystander obligations. In the words of Martha Nussbaum, a leading theorist of the Global Justice movement, ‘the whole world is under a collective obligation to secure the capabilities to all world citizens’ (Nussbaum 2011, 167).1 This chapter raises questions about the sorts of means that we can deploy as we seek to discharge these obligations. In particular, it asks whether there can be a place within Global Justice theory for third-party employment of coercive force to vindicate these rights.

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    Thom Brooks (Reader in Law, Associate in Philosophy) (Reader in Law, Associate in Philosophy)

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Begby, E. (2014). A Role for Coercive Force in the Theory of Global Justice?. In: Brooks, T. (eds) New Waves in Global Justice. New Waves in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137286406_5

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