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.

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About the Contributors

1 Political Theory Without Borders: An Introduction

Robert E. Goodin and James S. Fishkin

PART I – Global Spillovers

2 To Prevent a World Wasteland

George F.  Kennan

3 Two Kinds of Climate Justice:  Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens

Simon Caney

4 The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth

Mathias Risse 

PART II – Global Flows

5 Tax Competition and Global Background Justice

Peter Dietsch and Thomas Rixen 

6 Sovereign Debt, Human Rights and Policy Conditionality

Christian Barry

7 Justice in the Diffusion of Innovation   

Allen Buchanan, Tony Cole and Robert O. Keohane

8 From Migration in Geographic Space to Migration in Biographic Time: Views from Europe     

Claus Offe

9 On Citizenship, States and Markets

Ayelet Shachar and Ran Hirschl

PART III – Global Interventions

10 Colonialism as Structural Injustice:  Historical Responsibility and Contemporary     Redress

Catherine Lu 

11 The Judging of Nations

Clifford Geertz

12 From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect

Gareth Evans

13 The Misuse of Power, Not Bad Representation:  Why It Is Beside the Point that No One Elected Oxfam    

Jennifer C. Rubenstein 

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory at Australian National University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Founding Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, Dr. Goodin has published many books, including most recently Explaining Norms (2013 with G. Brennan, L. Eriksson and N. Southwood), On Complicity and Compromise (2013 with C. Lepora), and On Settling (2012). His book Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom (2008 with J.M. Rice, A. Parpo and L. Eriksson) was awarded the International Social Science Council s Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.

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 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.