Justice at a Distance

Loren Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Lomasky is the author of Persons, Rights and the Moral Community (1987) for which he was awarded the 1990 Matchette Foundation Book Prize for best philosophy book published during the preceding two years by an author under the age of forty. He coauthored Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge, 1993) with Geoffrey Brennan. His essay, 'Is There a Duty to Vote?', also coauthored with Brennan, was awarded the 2003 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy by the American Philosophical Association. Fernando R. Tesón is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University. He is the author of Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality, 3rd edition and Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure (with Guido Pincione). He has written more than fifty articles in journals, including Ethics and International Affairs, the Journal of Philosophy, the American Journal of International Law and Social Philosophy and Policy.

• 1. The state of the world; 2. What do we owe distant others?; 3. Choosing wealth, choosing poverty; 4. Immigration; 5. Emigration and the brain drain objection; 6. Justice and trade; 7. States; 8. War, self-defense, and humanitarian intervention; 9. Beyond justice at a distance.

'Robust, engaging, and smart … Lomasky and Tesón start from first philosophical principles before considering several highly topical issues, including diplomatic pressure, boycotts, the use of mercenaries, political assassination, humanitarian intervention, and global trade. [This study] offers a stimulating and powerful alternative to cosmopolitan egalitarian accounts of global justice that have dominated discussions … a tour de force.' James Pattison, University of Manchester