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Cohen, Joshua, Thomas Scanlon, and Amartya Sen, 17.000J Political Philosophy: Global Justice, Spring 2003. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 09 Jul, 2010). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Spring 2003
Gavel. (Photograph by Daniel Bersak.)
Course Highlights
This course includes a lengthy reading list and lecture notes.
Course Description
This course explores the foundations and content of norms of justice that apply beyond the borders of a single state. We examine issues of political justice, economic justice, and human rights. Topics include the case for skepticism about global justice; the idea of global democracy; intellectual property rights; the nature of distributive justice at the global level; pluralism and human rights; and rights to control borders. It meets jointly with Harvard's Philosophy 271, and is taught by Professors Joshua Cohen, Thomas Scanlon, and Amartya Sen. Readings are from Kant, Habermas, Rawls, Sen, Beitz, Nussbaum, Stiglitz, Ignatieff, Walzer, among others.
Syllabus
Requirements
Students taking the course for credit are required to submit a one-page proposal for a paper by class #9. The final papers are due in class #12, and should be 7,000-8,000 words.
Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
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REQUIRED READINGS |
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SUGGESTED READINGS |
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Organizational Meeting |
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Global Political Justice |
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Realism and Normative Skepticism |
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Mearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Chap. 1 and 2.
Krasner, Stephen. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Chap. 1. |
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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Chap. 13.
Tuck, Richard. The Rights of War and Peace. (Esp. chap. 4.)
Morgenthau, Henry. Politics Among Nations.
Waltz, Kenneth. Man, the State, and War.
Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Part One. |
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Persons, Peoples, States: Three Conceptions of the Global Moral Realm |
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Kant, Immanuel. “Perpetual Peace.”
Habermas, Juergen. “Kant’s Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove.”
Rawls, John. The Law of Peoples. Pp. 11-43.
Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Pp. 69-92. |
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Arguments for Sovereignty and Self-Determination |
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Miller, David. On Nationality. Pp. 81-118.
Buchanan, Alan. “Recognitional Legitimacy.”
Nussbaum, Martha. For Love of Country? Selections by Nussbaum, Appiah, Gutmann, and Taylor.
O’Neill, Onora. “Identities, Boundaries, and States.”
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Global Democracy without a World State? |
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Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. Chap. 9 (focus on pp. 214-229).
Ruggie, John. “Taking Embedded Liberalism Global.”
Shapiro, Ian, and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds. Democracy’s Edges.
(Dahl. “Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptic’s View.”
Tobin. "A Comment on Dahl’s Skepticism.”
Held, David. “The Transformation of Political Community.”
Kymlicka, Will. “Citizenship in an era of globalization”)
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Schmitter, Philippe. How to Democratize the European Union and Why Bother.
Cohen, Joshua, and Charles Sabel. “Sovereignty and Solidarity.”
Anne-Marie Slaughter, unpublished draft of a book.
Archibugi, Danielle, and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy. |
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Global Economic Justice |
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Cosmopolitanism |
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Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Pp. 127-169.
Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights. Chap. 4 and 8. |
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Pogge, Thomas. “An Egalitarian Law of Peoples.”
O’Neill, Onora. “Transnational Economic Justice.” |
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The Case of the Environment |
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Singer, Peter. One World. Chap. 2. |
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Domestic Institutions and Global Injustice |
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Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Pp. 105-120.
Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth. Chap. 8, 11 and 12.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Chap. 6 and 8. |
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Buchanan, Allen. “The Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World.” |
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The Case of Intellectual Property |
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Oddi, Samuel. "TRIPS—Natural Rights and a “Polite Form of Economic Imperialism.”
Adelman, Martin, and Sonia Baldia. “Prospects and Limits of the Patent Provision in the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of India.” |
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D’Amato, and Long, eds. International Intellectual Property Law. Pp. 1-19, 27-40, 41-52, 268-282.
Nagan, Winston. “International Intellectual Property, Access to Health Care, and Human Rights: South Africa v. United States."
“Trips and Public Health: The Next Battle.” Oxfam Briefing Paper.
Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism. |
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Human Rights |
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Human Rights |
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Bentham, Jeremy. Anarchical Fallacies. Pp. 491-501.
Beitz, Charles. “Human Rights as Common Concern.”
Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and as Idolatry. Pp. 3-55.
Habermas, Juergen. “Kant’s Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove.” |
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Glendon, Mary-Ann. A World Made New. |
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Human Rights, Cultural Diversity, and Democracy? |
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Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Pp. 59-70, 78-85.
An-Na’im, Abdullahi Ahmed. Toward and Islamic Reformation. Pp. 161-181.
Franck, Thomas. “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance.”
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Chap. 6 and 8. |
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Immigration and Borders |
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Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice. Chap. 2.
Habermas, Juergen. “Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic State.”
Carens, Joseph. "The Rights of Immigrants." |
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Fiss, Owen. A Community of Equals: The Constitutional Protection of New Americans. |
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Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Kant, Immanuel. Political Writings. Edited by H. S. Reiss, translated by H. B. Nisbet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Nussbaum, Martha, et al. For Love of Country? Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2002.
Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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Further Reading:
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Readings
Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Kant, Immanuel. Political Writings. Edited by H. S. Reiss, translated by H. B. Nisbet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Nussbaum, Martha, et al. For Love of Country? Boston: Beacon, 2002.
Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2002.
Rawls, John. Law of Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
Adelman, Martin, and Sonia Baldia. "Prospects and Limits of the Patent Provision in the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of India." Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 29 (1996): 507-33.
An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed. Toward an Islamic Reformation. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990, pp. 161-181.
Beitz, Charles. "Human Rights as Common Concern." American Political Science Review 95, 2 (2001): 269-82.
Bentham, Jeremy. "Anarchical Fallacies." In The Works of Jeremy Bentham. Edited by John Bowring. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843, pp. 491-501.
Buchanan, Alan. "Recognitional Legitimacy." Philosophy and Public Affairs 28, 1 (1999): 46-78.
Carens, Joseph. "The Rights of Immigrants." In Group Rights. Edited by J. Baker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 142-63.
Cohen, Joshua. "Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?" Manuscript. MIT.
Cohen, Joshua, and Joel Rogers. "Globalization, Growth, and Poverty." Manuscript. MIT.
Dahl, Robert. "Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptic's View." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 19-36.
Franck, Thomas. "The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance." The American Journal of International Law 86, 1 (1992): 46-91.
Habermas, Jürgen. "Kant's Perpetual Peace at 200 Years Remove." In The Inclusion of the Other. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT PRess, 1998, pp. 165-201.
Habermas, Jürgen. "Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic State." In Inclusion of the Other. Pp. 226-236.
Held, David. "The Transformation of Political Community." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 84-111.
Krasner, Stephen. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Chap. 1.
Kymlicka, Will. "Citizenship in an era of globalization." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 112-126.
Mearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: Norton, 2001. Chap. 1 and 2.
Miller, David. On Nationality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 81-118.
Oddi, Samuel. "TRIPS--Natural Rights and a 'Polite Form of Economic Imperialism'." Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 29 (1996): 415-70.
O'Neill, Onora. "Identities, Boundaries, and States." Chap.9 in Bounds of Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Ruggie, John. "Taking Embedded Liberalism Global." Chap. 4 in Taming Globalization: Frontiers of Governance. Edited by David Held and Mathias Koenig- Archibugi. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003.
Singer, Peter. One World: The Ethics of Globalization. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. Chap. 2.
Tobin, James. "A Comment on Dahl's Skepticism." In Democracy's Edges. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 37-40.
Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice. New York: Basic Books, 1983. Chap. 2.
Archibugi, Danielle, and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1995.
Buchanan, Allen. "The Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World." Ethics 110 (July 2000): 697-721.
Cohen, Joshua, and Charles Sabel. "Sovereignty and Solidarity." In Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments. Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and David Trubek. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
D'Amato, Anthony A., and Doris E. Long, eds. International Intellectual Property Law. Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997, pp. 1-19, 27-40, 41-52, 268-282 (on TRIPS).
Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism. New York: New Press, 2003.
Fiss, Owen. A Community of Equals: The Constitutional Protection of New Americans. Edited by Micah Kleit, and Edwidge Danticat. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
Glendon, Mary-Ann. A World Made New. New York: Random House, 2001.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Chap. 13.
Morgenthau, Henry. Politics Among Nations. New York: Knopf, 1985.
Nagan, Winston. "International Intellectual Property, Access to Health Care, and Human Rights: South Africa v. United States." Florida Journal of International Law 14 (2001/02): 155-191.
O'Neill, Onora. "Transnational Economic Justice." Chap. 7 in Bounds of Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Oxfam International. "Trips and Public Health: The Next Battle." Oxfam Briefing Paper. March 2002.
Pogge, Thomas. "An Egalitarian Law of Peoples." Philosophy and Public Affairs 23, 3 (Summer 1994): 195-224.
Schmitter, Philippe. How to Democratize the European Union and Why Bother. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Slaughter, Anne-Marie. Unpublished draft of a book manuscript on global network governance.
Tuck, Richard. The Rights of War and Peace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Esp. chap. 4.
Waltz, Kenneth. Man, the State, and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001 [1959].
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