Compatibility of National Self Determination with Ideals of Global Justice
Essay Plan
Is the goal of national self-determination (according sovereign statehood to each national community) compatible with ideals of global justice? Draw critically upon a theory (or theories) of justice to explain and give reasons for your answer.
Introduction
• Justice – the core notion of justice to revolve around the idea that some entity is entitled, as a matter of right rather than charity, to receive the treatment proper to it - BROWN
• National self-determination
• Cosmopolitan character of global justice – ‘world state’ and people as the primary concern, not states.
• Political justice – states existence is what gives the value of justice its application
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Justice
LECTURE SLIDE: Justice – What we owe to one another as members of a society or political community, does not give account of everything that is ‘good’
Political justice – concerned with the just exercise of political power within a society
• Assumes some forms of political power are necessary to maintain social order – who should wield it?
• Dahl – A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do
• Control power through law, constitution, institutions
Question of rights
Question of duties/responsibilities
Areas of global justice:
• Distributive justice – distribution of social goods and resources
• Political justice – structure and allocation of political power, linked to democracy
• Restorative justice – duties arising from the legacies of historical injustices, historical justice
Who/what should principles of global justice regulate?
• Individuals, states, communities, other actors like corporations?
• Unified global basic structure, global government?
Key challenges to achieving global justice:
• Power
• Pluralism – people cant agree on what is owed
• System of sovereign nation states reinforces and compounds both of these problems
• SWIFT
• Brown – justice = the core notion of justice to revolve around
Is the goal of national self-determination (according sovereign statehood to each national community) compatible with ideals of global justice? Draw critically upon a theory (or theories) of justice to explain and give reasons for your answer.
Introduction
• Justice – the core notion of justice to revolve around the idea that some entity is entitled, as a matter of right rather than charity, to receive the treatment proper to it - BROWN
• National self-determination
• Cosmopolitan character of global justice – ‘world state’ and people as the primary concern, not states.
• Political justice – states existence is what gives the value of justice its application
Paragraph
Justice
LECTURE SLIDE: Justice – What we owe to one another as members of a society or political community, does not give account of everything that is ‘good’
Political justice – concerned with the just exercise of political power within a society
• Assumes some forms of political power are necessary to maintain social order – who should wield it?
• Dahl – A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do
• Control power through law, constitution, institutions
Question of rights
Question of duties/responsibilities
Areas of global justice:
• Distributive justice – distribution of social goods and resources
• Political justice – structure and allocation of political power, linked to democracy
• Restorative justice – duties arising from the legacies of historical injustices, historical justice
Who/what should principles of global justice regulate?
• Individuals, states, communities, other actors like corporations?
• Unified global basic structure, global government?
Key challenges to achieving global justice:
• Power
• Pluralism – people cant agree on what is owed
• System of sovereign nation states reinforces and compounds both of these problems
• SWIFT
• Brown – justice = the core notion of justice to revolve around