Description: Rectifying International Injustice Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Principles of Compensation and Restitution Between Nations Author(s): Daniel Butt Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199218240, 978-0199218240 Synopsis The history of international relations is characterized by widespread injustice. What implications does this have for those living in the present? Many writers have dismissed the moral urgency of rectificatory justice in a domestic context, as a result of their forward-looking accounts of distributive justice. Rectifying International Injustice argues that historical international injustice raises a series of distinct theoretical problems, as a result of the popularity of backward-looking accounts of distributive justice in an international context. It lays out three morally relevant forms of connection with the past, based in ideas of benefit, entitlement and responsibility. Those living in the present may have obligations to pay compensation to those in other states insofar as they are benefiting, and others are suffering, as a result of the effects of historic injustice. They may be in possession of property which does not rightly belong to them, but to which others have inherited entitlements. Finally, they may be members of political communities which bear collective responsibility for an ongoing failure to rectify historic injustice. Rectifying International Injustice considers each of these three linkages with the past in detail. It examines the complicated relationship between rectificatory justice and distributive justice, and argues that many of those who resist cosmopolitan demands for the global redistribution of resources have failed to appreciate the extent to which past wrongdoing undermines the legitimacy of contemporary resource holdings.
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Book Title: Rectifying International Injustice
Number of Pages: 228 Pages
Publication Name: Rectifying International Injustice: Principles of Compensation and Restitution between Nations
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 242 mm
Subject: Government
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 518 g
Subject Area: International Law, Political Science
Author: Daniel Butt
Item Width: 162 mm
Format: Hardcover
