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A study of justice in world affairs should begin with a skeptical question: is there such a thing? Hobbes would answer “no.”1 Contrary to the assertions of realists and other skeptics, I shall argue that justice is constitutive and regulative of social life generally and that various principles and practices of justice are operative in international relations. My aim must be confined to sketching the character and modus operandi of the idea.
Justice should not be construed as some simple unconcern with one’s own interests, but as a lively recognition of other men’s interests alongside one’s own.
J.R. Lucas
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Notes
T Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford: Blackwell, 1946), p. 83.
J.R. Lucas, On Justice (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), p. 16.
See Susan M. Lloyd (ed.), “Synopsis of Categories,” Roget’s International Thesaurus 3rd ed. (New York, 1962), pp. xvii–xx.
N. Machiavelli, The Prince, tr. G. Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961).
Martin Wight, International Theory: The Three Traditions (Leicester and London: Leicester University Press, 1991), p. 106.
H. Reiss (ed.), “The Metaphysics of Morals,” Kant: Political Writings, 2nd enl. ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 131–75.
R.G. Collingwood, The New Leviathan (New York, 1971), ch. XXXV.
John Rawls, “Justice as Fairness,” in P. Laslett and W.G. Runciman (eds.), Philosophy, Politics and Society (Second Series) (Oxford: Blackwell, 1972), pp. 132–57.
Also see John Rawls, A Theory ofJustice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), esp. ch. II.
G. Grube (tr.), Plato-Republic rev. C. Reeve (Indianapolis, IN and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 1992), book I.
Alan James, Sovereign Statehood: The Bases of International Society (London: Allen & Unwin, 1986).
E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939 (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), p. 102.
See N.L. Rosenblum, Bentham’s Theory of the Modern State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978), p. 101 (emphasis added).
H. Bull, Justice in International Relations (Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo, 1984), p. 14.
See H. Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980), pp. 22–29.
See R. Jackson, “Can International Society be Green?” in R. Fawn and J. Larkins (eds.), International Society after the Cold War (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 172–92.
UN decisions and actions on compensation of adversely affected states are collected in D. Bethlehem (ed.), The Kuwait Crisis: Sanctions and Their Consequences, part I (Cambridge: Grotius Publications, 1991).
For example, see J. Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
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Jackson, R. (2005). Dialogical Justice in World Affairs. In: Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979520_8
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