Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3210: Global Justice

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Chatterjee, D. K. ed., The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Dahl, R. “Can International Organizations be Democratic?  A Skeptic’s View,” in Democracy’s Edges, ed. I. Shapiro and C. Hacker-Cordon, 1999 pp. 19-36.

Beitz, C. R. “Justice and International Relations.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 4, no. 4 (1975): 360–389.

Brooks, T., ed. The Global Justice Reader. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

Miller, D. “The Ethical Significance of Nationality.” Ethics 98, no. 4 (1988): 647–662.

Nagel, T. “The Problem of Global Justice.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 33, no. 2 (March 1, 2005): 113–147.

Pogge, T. World Poverty and Human Rights. Polity, 2002.

Rawls, J. The Law of Peoples.HarvardUniversity Press, 2001.

Shue, H. “Global Environment and International Inequality,” International Affairs 75, 3 (1999), pp. 531-545.

Walzer, M. Just and Unjust Wars. Basic Books, 2006.