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Justice, the State and International Relations: Three Theories
Author(s): Leo McCarthy (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 16 Feb. 1998
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 033371668X
- ISBN-13: 9780333716687
Book Description
This text offers a review of historical traditions of international ethical and political theory in the light of modern developments in political philosophy. McCarthy provides a defence of natural law tradition, and in response to the criticism of natural law that, along with Kantianism, it is too abstract to produce a substantive account of justice and rights, constructs an argument for basic, agency-grounded rights. Through his study, the author attacks “realism” and the modern “cosmopolitan” theories that have been too little debated.
