What is so Special about the State?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I. On Cosmopolitanism
5. Nationalism and Global Justice: A Survey of Some Challenges 9
6. Cosmopolitanism: Cultural, Moral, and Political 25
7. Arguing for Justice. Global Justice and Philosophical Argumentation 47
8. II. Normative Theory
9. Global and Statist Egalitarianism and Their Woes 87
10. What is so Special about the State? 107
11. On the Applicability of the Ideal of Equality of Opportunity at the Global Level 127
12. Against Relational Views of Justice and Parental Duties 145
13. Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty and Global Justice 161
14. III. On Kant & Rawls
15. On Kant’s Aesthetics and his Progressing Treatment of Peace 177
16. Rawls’ via media: Between Realism and Utopianism 197
17. Rawls’s The Law of Peoples as a Guideline for the World as We Know It 207
18. IV. Economic Justice
19. Towards Fair Terms of Economic Cooperation 221
20. Whip Cosmopolitanism into Shape: Assessing Thomas Pogge’s Global Resources Dividend as an Instrument of Global Justice 241
21. Backmatter 251