POLITICAL THEORY WITHOUT BORDERS Political theory has traditionally focused on governance within the confines of a specific polity, but with the recent proliferation of environmental realities and national decisions that have global repercussions, political theory must now be re-imagined to confront globalization head-on. Political Theory Without Borders presents a collection scholarship that does just that. Each chapter focuses on answering specific questions that have arisen from issues of global spillover – like climate change and pollution – and the increasingly unrestricted flow of people, products, and financial capital across borders. With contributions from emerging scholars alongside key texts from some of the most well-known theorists of previous generations, this collection illustrates how the classic concerns of political theory – justice and equality, liberty and oppression – have re-emerged with a renewed significance at the global level.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
About the Contributors viii
1 Political Theory Without Borders: An Introduction 1
Robert E. Goodin and James S. Fishkin
PART I Global Spillovers 5
2 To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal 7
George F. Kennan
3 Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens 18
Simon Caney
4 The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth 46
Mathias Risse
PART II Global Flows 75
5 Tax Competition and Global Background Justice 77
Peter Dietsch and Thomas Rixen
6 Sovereign Debt, Human Rights, and Policy Conditionality 107
Christian Barry
7 Justice in the Diffusion of Innovation 133
Allen Buchanan, Tony Cole and Robert O. Keohane
8 From Migration in Geographic Space to Migration in Biographic Time: Views From Europe 162
Claus Offe
9 On Citizenship, States, and Markets 206
Ayelet Shachar and Ran Hirschl
PART III Global Interventions 235
10 Colonialism as Structural Injustice: Historical Responsibility and Contemporary Redress 237
Catherine Lu
11 The Judging of Nations: Some Comments on the Assessment of Regimes in the New States 260
Clifford Geertz
12 From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect 275
Gareth Evans
13 The Misuse of Power, Not Bad Representation: Why It Is Beside the Point that No One Elected Oxfam 293
Jennifer C. Rubenstein
Index 322
About the Author :
Robert E. Goodin is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Founding Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, Goodin has published many books, including most recently An Epistemic Theory of Democracy (2018 with K. Spiekermann) and Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice (2023). He has been awarded the 2022 Skytte Prize in Political Science and the 2009 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for book Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom (2008 with J.M. Rice, A. Parpo and L. Eriksson).
James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of a number of books, including Democracy When the People are Thinking (2018); When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation (2011), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (1995), and Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (1991). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, he has co-edited the Philosophy, Politics and Society Series since 1979.
