John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order

Providing a critical examination of the political philosophy and international thought of the contemporary American philosopher John Rawls, this book shows an account of Rawls’s views regarding the nature of social justice among states and the international law and morality he considers necessary to secure universal human rights and political stability among states. A concise and critical analysis of one of the foremost political philosophers, this carefully examines Rawls’s theories of domestic and international justice and his arguments for a cosmopolitan variation on his law of peoples.