Introduction to Political Theory

Famine – whose responsibility? F amine provides the clearest and most compelling illustration of global inequality. That the wea ...

Famine Singer on famine How individuals and states respond – or should respond – to famine throws into sharp relief central issu ...

duties as individuals, whereas Sen is offering an economic and political analysis of the causes of famine. Nonetheless, Sen’s em ...

nations would starve. The willingness of the wealthy in the West to contribute through redistributive taxation to help their poo ...

causes of famine are complex. Certainly there are situations in which people are clearly starving and direct food aid is require ...

Both Beitz and Pogge are strongly influenced by Rawls but criticise his refusal to extend his theory of domestic justice to the ...

A Rawlsian would regard Sub-subbrazil as unjust, but then they should also regard the world economic system as unjust, because i ...

over Sub-subbrazil both positions insist on, or defend, the discrepancy between domestic and global justice, but they differ in ...

is the good of thisparticular social life inhabited by me and I enjoy itas what it is’ (MacIntyre, 1995: 217, his emphases). Tha ...

this restriction is that we know better how to address the needs of those close to us, as against those further away. This is no ...

not isolated individuals, but members of other national communities (Miller, 1995: 73). We do not relate to outsiders simply as ...

A ‘well-ordered’ society is one which is stable and respects both basic human rights and the sovereign status of other nations. ...

between the individual and the state. Ethical issues in international relations – military intervention, global distributive jus ...

Nagel argues that sovereignty is the missing link in discussions of global justice. Justice, he suggests, applies only to a form ...

partiality will benefit some children more than others, and, likewise, partiality towards compatriots will disadvantage some ind ...

Political solutions precede economic ones. Parallel to this political debate there is a philosophical, or ethical, one and to il ...

Agents in Rawls’s original position are denied knowledge of their identities, but as Derek Parfit argues, the one thing of which ...

argue, morally and intellectually unsustainable. The second position – particularism maintains the discrepancy is justifiable b ...

‘Immigration and the Welfare State’, in A. Guttman (ed.) Democracy and the Welfare State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Pr ...

Conclusion One of the questions that interests students of politics is the relationship between studying politics as an academic ...