Political Theory Without Borders

Robert E. Goodin is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Founding Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, Goodin has published many books, including most recently An Epistemic Theory of Democracy (2018 with K. Spiekermann) and Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice (2023). He has been awarded the 2022 Skytte Prize in Political Science and the 2009 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for book Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom (2008 with J.M. Rice, A. Parpo and L. Eriksson). James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of a number of books, including Democracy When the People are Thinking (2018); When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation (2011), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (1995), and Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (1991). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, he has co-edited the Philosophy, Politics and Society Series since 1979.

• Acknowledgments viiAbout the Contributors viii1 Political Theory Without Borders: An Introduction 1Robert E. Goodin and James S. FishkinPART I Global Spillovers 52 To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal 7George F. Kennan3 Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens 18Simon Caney4 The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth 46Mathias RissePART II Global Flows 755 Tax Competition and Global Background Justice 77Peter Dietsch and Thomas Rixen6 Sovereign Debt, Human Rights, and Policy Conditionality 107Christian Barry7 Justice in the Diffusion of Innovation 133Allen Buchanan, Tony Cole and Robert O. Keohane8 From Migration in Geographic Space to Migration in Biographic Time: Views From Europe 162Claus Offe9 On Citizenship, States, and Markets 206Ayelet Shachar and Ran HirschlPART III Global Interventions 23510 Colonialism as Structural Injustice: Historical Responsibility and Contemporary Redress 237Catherine Lu11 The Judging of Nations: Some Comments on the Assessment of Regimes in the New States 260Clifford Geertz12 From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect 275Gareth Evans13 The Misuse of Power, Not Bad Representation: Why It Is Beside the Point that No One Elected Oxfam 293Jennifer C. RubensteinIndex 322

Select Guide Rating