Political Philosophy

The Law of Peoples

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John Rawls

1999

Rawls extends his theory of justice to the international domain, arguing for a law of peoples that liberal and decent non-liberal societies could jointly endorse. He defends a moderate cosmopolitanism that acknowledges duties of assistance to burdened societies while stopping short of a global difference principle, and articulates the conditions under which non-liberal regimes may be tolerated by the liberal international order.