NDLI: Freedom beyond the threshold: self-determination, sovereignty, and global justice

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Freedom beyond the threshold: self-determination, sovereignty, and global justice

Content Provider	Taylor & Francis Online
Author	Banai, Ayelet
Abstract	In current debates about global justice, statist and nationalist theories appeal to the right to self-determination in argument against egalitarianism beyond borders, and in general as a reason for caution about substantive international duties of justice, lest the exercise of self-determination would be too tightly constrained. Has self-determination—an important heritage of decolonization—no longer a role to play in the argument against international inequality and disempowerment? In this article, I examine a dominant interpretation of self-determination in the global justice debate, as defended prominently by John Rawls and David Miller and find it wanting. Specifically, two challenges are raised: at the conceptual level this interpretation leaves unclarified the distinction and relationship between sovereignty and self-determination; at the normative level, this interpretation adopts a sufficiency view of international distributive justice that neglects that problem of relative extents and measures of self-determination, beyond the threshold. While the article's argument is mainly of a critical scope, it is suggested that a more robust theoretical account is required of the content of the right of self-determination, and in particular of the freedoms that the right confers to the right-holders in the socioeconomic domains and their extents.
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
ISSN	16544951 16546369
DOI	10.3402/egp.v8.24446
Journal	Ethics & Global Politics
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Routledge
Publisher Date	2015-03-27
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Sovereignty Self-determination Global justice John Rawls David Miller International investment law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations

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