Table Of Content

JUSTICE BEYOND BORDERS This page intentionally left blank Justice Beyond Borders A Global Political Theory SIMON CANEY 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Simon Caney, 2005 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2005 First published in paperback 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn ISBN 0–19–829350–X 978–0–19–829350–7 ISBN 0–19–929796–7 (Pbk.) 978–0–19–929796–2 (Pbk.) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 To Joanna, Eleanor, and Isabel This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements I have benefited greatly from the comments and suggestions of very many people. Earlier versions of the material included in this book have been presented at seminars and conferences at: All Souls College, Oxford, Barcelona, Bielefeld, Birmingham, Bordeaux, Bristol, Chicago, Cork, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Essex, Exeter, Grenoble, the London School of Economics, Manchester, Mannheim, Newcastle, Nuffield College, Oxford, Reading, Rotterdam, Sussex, Vienna, Warwick, and York. I am grateful to the audiences at all the above. I am in particular grateful to: Christien van den Anker, Charles Beitz, Richard Bellamy, Erica Benner, Mark Bevir, Chris Brown, Avner de-Shalit, Cécile Fabre, Michael Freeman, Mervyn Frost, David George, Bob Goodin, David Held, John Horton, Kim Hutchings, Charles Jones, Vijay Joshi, Catriona MacKinnon, Andy Mason, Sue Mendus, Terry Nardin, Onora O’Neill, Bhikhu Parekh, Thomas Pogge, Hillel Steiner, Leif Wenar, Andrew Williams, and Sven Wynant. I have also learnt much from discussions with my past and current Ph.D. students who have worked on the issues examined in this book, Derek Bell, Wendy Croft, Graham Long, and Alan Lumley. I am especially indebted to Brian Barry and David Miller for conversations over a number of years on the issues discussed in this book. I have benefited greatly from many discussions with both of them. I owe a special and extensive debt to Peter Jones for innumerable hours spent discussing issues in political philosophy in general and the topics of this book in particular. Thanks are also due to James Pattison for compiling the index. I would also like to thank Dominic Byatt for his encouragement and his patience. Finally, I am grateful to my parents, Elizabeth and Stephen Caney, for proofreading the manuscript. Over and above this, I am deeply grateful to both for their love and unstinting support. Part of Chapter 4 has been published as ‘Review Article: International Distrib- utive Justice’, Political Studies(2001), 49/5: 974–97; part of Chapter 5 has been published as ‘Self-Government and Secession: The Case of Nations’, Journal of Political Philosophy(1997), 5/4: 351–72; and part of Chapter 7 appeared as ‘Humanitarian Intervention and State Sovereignty’, Ethics in International Affairs: Theories and Cases, edited by Andrew Valls (2000): 117–33 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield). I am grateful to Political Studies, Journal of Polit- ical Philosophy, and Rowman and Littlefield for permission to use this material. The Leverhulme Trust awarded me a research fellowship for one year. This was invaluable and I thank the Trust for this support. I am grateful, above all else, to Joanna for her love, patience and constant support. This page intentionally left blank Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Universalism 25 3. Civil and Political Justice 63 4. Distributive Justice 102 5. Political Structures 148 6. Just War 189 7. Humanitarian Intervention 226 8. Conclusion 263 References 282 Index 309