Moral Responsibility and Global Justice. A Human Rights Approach

The author declines to develop an abstract ideal of global justice, but instead provides a framework for mormative argument dealing with obvious injustice and absence of justice in inter- and transnational political practice as it actually is. Starting with an analysis of the concept of 'human rights' as a standard of legitimacy for socio-political institutions and practices, the book explores normative standards for peace ethics, humanitarian intervention, poverty relief, and transnational migration