Explores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nations

Global justice is an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges. Not only does work in this area often force us to rethink about ethics and political philosophy more generally, but its insights contain seeds of hope for addressing some of the greatest global problems facing humanity today. The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice has been selective in bringing together some of the most pressing topics and issues in global justice as understood by the leading voices from both established and rising stars across twenty-five new chapters. This Handbook explores severe poverty, climate change, egalitarianism, global citizenship, human rights, immigration, territorial rights, and much more.

This two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, published by Springer, along with Springer's book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major publication venture toward a comprehensive coverage of this timely topic. The Encyclopedia is an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative project, spanning all the relevant areas of scholarship related to issues of global justice, and edited and advised by leading scholars from around the world. The wide-ranging entries present the latest ideas on this complex subject by authors who are at the cutting edge of inquiry. The Encyclopedia sets the tone and direction of this increasingly important area of scholarship for years to come. The entries number around 500 and consist of essays of 300 to 5000 words. The inclusion and length of entries are based on their significance to the topic of global justice, regardless of their importance in other areas.

What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamental concepts, issues and arguments at the heart of global justice, including: world poverty economic inequality nationalism human rights humanitarian intervention immigration global democracy and governance climate change reparations health justice international justice. This second edition has been updated throughout and includes two new chapters: on ethical and moral debates concerning reparations and on global health justice. The chapters on world poverty, human rights, just war, borders, climate justice, and global democracy have also been substantially revised and updated. Centered on real world problems, this textbook helps students to understand that global justice is not only a field of philosophical inquiry but also of practical importance. Each chapter concludes with a helpful summary of the main ideas discussed, study questions and a further reading guide.

Defining the principles of justice that ought to govern the global economic and political sphere is one of the most urgent tasks that contemporary political philosophers face. But they must also contribute to working through the institutional implications of these principles. How might principles of global justice be realised? Must the institutions that aim to implement them be transnational, or can global justice be attained within the context of the state system? Can institutions of democratic self-governance be imagined beyond the nation-state? These are just some of the questions that still face political philosophers even when issues of abstract principle have been addressed. This volume establishes a dialogue between philosophers working at all levels of abstraction. Some of the authors are concerned with the grounds and scope of the obligations that bind the citizens and governments of rich countries to those of poorer nations. But many examine the question of how these obligations can be satisfied, both within existing institutional frameworks and beyond. Together their essays constitute a major contribution to the advancement of both the theoretical understanding and the practical requirements of global justice.

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Challenges social work to reinvent itself in response to clients' changing needs in the world. This book covers the theories of science - global survival, ecology, physics, and evolution. It also covers the evolutionary technologies - biological, mental, environmental, and spiritual.

Der wirtschaftliche und soziale Globalisierungsprozeß der letzten Jahre steht im Mittelpunkt der aktuellen Debatten. Je nach Bewertung plädiert man für eine Globalisierung der politischen Institutionen oder man warnt vor den Folgen für Solidarität und Demokratie. Die schwerwiegendsten Bedenken betreffen aber nicht erst Modelle einer globalen Weltordnung, sondern sie beginnen schon auf dem Weg zu einer solchen: Kein Globalisierungsprozeß der politischen Institutionen - keine Harmonisierung und kein Zusammenschluß zwischen Staaten - könnte je stattfinden, welcher den Forderungen der demokratischen Rechtsstaatlichkeit gerecht wäre. Eine internationale und interdisziplinäre Gruppe von Autoren befaßt sich mit drei wichtigen Dimensionen einer Ethik der Harmonisierung und des Zusammenschlusses zwischen Staaten: 1. der Ethik der internationalen Verhandlungen und Abkommen, 2. der Möglichkeit einer Globalisierung der Öffentlichkeit und 3. der Anwendung des Prinzips von Föderalismus und Subsidiarität auf solche Staatengebilde. - Mit deutsch- und englischsprachigen Beiträgen von L. Baccelli, P. Burgess, P. Cobben, P. Coppens, B. Freitag, O. Höffe, T. Pogge, G. Reichberg, D. Spini, L. Trocsanyi u.a.