Christine Chwaszcza

Moral Responsibility and Global Justice: a Human Rights Approach (Second Revised Edition) (Studies in Political Theory) Christine Chwaszcza Second Revised, 2 Revised edition

Defending an account of human rights as ethically substantive standards of legitimacy for institutions, author Christine Chwaszcza develops a methodological framework for normative theory of inter- and transnational justice. Her account combines critical normative discourse with an analysis of political and international practice. Four problems are addressed: inter-state responsibility for peace, transnational responsibilities concerning poverty relief, humanitarian intervention, and ethical problems related to voluntary migration. This second revised edition declines to develop an abstract ideal of global justice, but instead provides a framework for normative argument, dealing with obvious injustice and the absence of justice in inter- and transnational political practice. Two years after its first publication, the problems that the book addresses are as pressing as they have ever been.