Justice and World Order: A Philosophical Inquiry. (book reviews)

The premise of this book is that there will continue to be serious disagreement about principles of international justice. Rather than discussing such principles directly, it is therefore more fruitful to approach questions of international justice by imagining changes in social relations, motivations, and forms of political authority that might encourage international actors to cooperate despite their continuing disagreement.

Thompson also wishes to identify mechanisms that might move us beyond an international scheme of self-interested cooperation, or |modus vivendi,' to a genuine ...

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