John Rawls, “The Law of Peoples,” and International Political Theory

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 14, Issue , 2000, Pages 125-132

  Brown, Chris ^a  

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EID: 85017058686     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2000.tb00058.x     Document Type: Review

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1. This edition also contains the 1997 essay “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited.”
2. What follows oversimplifies, and Rawls's technical apparatus employs terms that can only be identified, not defined, in an essay of this scope. For fuller accounts readers are directed to the original works themselves, and to commentaries such as Norman Daniels, ed., Reading Rawls: Critical Studies of A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Blackwell, 1975).
3. Rawls, Law, chap. 1.
4. Charles Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979)
5. Thomas Pogge, Realizing Rawls (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990)
6. Brian Barry, Theories of Justice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
7. These criticisms are discussed in Chris Brown, “Review Essay: Theories of International Justice,” British Journal of Political Science 27 (1997), pp. 273–97.
8. Rawls, Law, p. 28. It is because states are so often “rational” in this sense that Rawls prefers to think in terms of a “law of peoples” rather than international law.
9. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars, 2d ed. (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
10. Rawls, Law, p. 105.
11. Law, p. 106.
12. Law, p. 115.
13. See, e.g., Brian Barry, “Review Essay: John Rawls and the Search for Stability,” Ethics 105 (1995), pp. 874–915.
14. For the former, see John Gerard Ruggie, Constructing the World Polity (New York: Routledge, 1998)
15. Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
16. for the latter, Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society (London: Macmillan, 1977/1992)
17. Tim Dunne, Inventing International Society (London: Macmillan, 1998).
18. Thomas Nagel, Equality and Partiality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).