Global Political Philosophy [Paperback]

Risse takes a refreshingly different approach to understanding the important and topical debates in the subject through the lens of issues of global reach such as justice, human rights, fair trade and immigration, focusing on normative questions that arise about globalization.Series Editor's PrefaceIntroduction Human RightsUniversalism vs. Relativism Why States? Global Distributive JusticeEnvironmental Justice Immigration Fairness in Trade Epilogue: Pluralist InternationalismBibliographyIndex

'Risse introduces the important debates in global political philosophy with great clarity and insight. He covers a wide range of issues (human rights, global distributive justice, the environment, immigration, trade), and gracefully defends his own theory of pluralist internationalism while giving charitable consideration to other approaches. This is a terrific introduction to the topic.' - Anna Stilz, Princeton University, USA

Mathias Risse is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of On Global Justice (2012). His main research area is political philosophy, but he has also published on social choice theory, on ethics, and on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Before coming to Harvard, he taught at the Department of Philosophy at Yale University.