Peace, Justice and International Order

Annette Förster is Lecturer and Research Associate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany where she teaches and researches in the field of international justice and the theory of the state. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

• 1. Introduction 2. Practical Relevance of a Realistic Utopia 3. Why Peoples, Not States – Why States, Not Peoples 4. A Typology of Political Regimes 5. International Justice and the Principles of the Law of Peoples 6. The Society of Peoples – A Union of Well-Ordered Societies? 7. Decent Peoples and the Real World 8. Decent Peace in The Law of Peoples and Beyond 9. Peace, Justice and International Order – A Conclusion

"The question this book engages with is crucial to understanding the relevance of Rawls's liberalism to contemporary international affairs. Exploring the question of whether there are (or could be) decent non-liberal societies is essential to establishing the boundaries of toleration in international affairs. These are the boundaries of just war, of humanitarian aid and intervention, of stability and justice. They tell us whether a liberal conception of global justice is capable of being the object of an overlapping consensus between morally and culturally distinct societies. Annette Forster has accepted this challenge and produced a fascinating study of 'the decent peace thesis' that will give students and scholars in the field much to think about." - Peter Sutch, University of Cardiff, UK