Justice, the State and International Relations offers a review of historical traditions of international ethical and political theory in the light of modern developments in political philosophy. McCarthy provides a defence of natural law tradition, and, in response to the criticism of natural law that, along with Kantianism, it is too abstract to produce a substantive account of justice and rights, constructs an argument for basic, agency-grounded rights. Through his study, the author attacks `realism' and the modern `cosmopolitan' theories that until now have been too little debated.

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Leo McCarthy was Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently working on a companion volume provisionally entitled Human Rights and International Distributive Justice.

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Book Title: Justice, the State and International Relations
Authors: Leo McCarthy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379053
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71668-7Published: 16 February 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37905-3Published: 16 February 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Topics: International Relations, Ethics, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Political Science, Philosophy of Law

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Justice in International Relations

Political Realism and the Primacy of the State

The Cosmopolitan Theory of International Justice

Justice in a Society of States

Human Rights, the State and Global Justice

Conclusion

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