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Names: Held, David, editor. | Maffettone, Pietro, editor.

Title: Global political theory / edited by David Held, Pietro Maffettone.

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Michael Blake is Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Director of the Program on Values in Society, at the University of Washington, Seattle. His recent works include Justice and Foreign Policy (2013) and Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? (with Gillian Brock, 2014). His main research interests are in global distributive justice and the ethics of migration policy.

Peter Dietsch is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Montreal, and directs the ethics and economics research axis at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRE). He is the author of Catching Capital: The Ethics of Tax Competition (2015), co-editor, with Thomas Rixen, of Global Tax Governance: What is Wrong with it and How to Fix it (2016), and author of numerous journal articles. His research interests lie at the intersection of political philosophy and economics, with a particular focus on questions of income distribution as well as on the normative dimensions of economic policies.

Marcello Di Paola teaches Global Justice and Sustainability Theories at LUISS University in Rome, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics. He writes on climate change and the Anthropocene, with a focus on the role of individuals in the face of complex global issues. He has recently co-edited Canned Heat: the Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change (with Gianfranco Pellegrino, 2014).

Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. He is co-director of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, of the Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Justitia Amplificata’ and Member of the Directorate of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Bad Homburg. His work in moral and political philosophy focuses on questions of practical reason, justice and toleration. His major publications are Contexts of Justice (2002), The Right to Justification (2012), Toleration in Conflict (2013), Justification and Critique (2013), The Power of Tolerance (with Wendy Brown, 2014), Justice, Democracy and the Right to Justification (with Replies by Critics; 2014) and Normativität und Macht (2015).

Axel Gosseries is Maître de recherches at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium), Professor at the University of Leuven (UCL, Hoover Chair) and a Franz Weyr Fellow (Czech Academy of Science). He is the author of Penser la justice entre les générations (2004), the co-editor of three books, including one on intellectual property issues (2008), and another on issues of intergenerational justice (2009), and of more than 50 articles and chapters in philosophy, law and economics. He works in the field of political philosophy, especially on issues of intergenerational justice and on the respective role of states and firms.

David Held is Master of University College and Professor of Politics and International Relations, at Durham University. Among his most recent publications are Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing (2013), Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities (2010), Globalization/Anti-Globalization (2007), Models of Democracy (2006), Global Covenant (2004), Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (1999) and Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (1995). His main research interests include globalization, changing forms of democracy, and regional and global governance. He is a Director of Polity Press, which he co-founded in 1984, and General Editor of Global Policy.

Aaron James is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy (2012) and numerous articles on metaethics, moral theory and political philosophy. He has been an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, and a visiting professor of philosophy at New York University.

Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, and Chair of the Environmental Studies Department at New York University. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London, and Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. His most recent books are Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed – and What It Means For Our Future (2014), and, with the novelist Bonnie Nadzam, Love in the Anthropocene (2015), a collection of short stories and essays.

Seth Lazar is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Sparing Civilians (2015) and editor of The Morality of Defensive War (2014) and The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War (2016). His work has appeared in journals such as Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Besides the morality of war, his research interests include the ethics of risk and the foundations of associative duties.

David Lefkowitz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and founding coordinator of the programme in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond, Virginia. His research interests include the morality of obedience and disobedience to law, analytical questions in the philosophy of international law, and topics in international ethics such as secession and the just conduct of war. He has published papers in numerous journals, including Ethics, Legal Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy and The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, as well as chapters in The Philosophy of International Law, The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law and several other edited collections.

Terry Macdonald is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Melbourne, having previously held positions at Merton College, University of Oxford, the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, and Monash University. She is the author of Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States (2008) and co-editor of Global Political Justice (with Miriam Ronzoni, 2013). She has published further on topics of global democracy, legitimacy and political justice in journals including Ethics & International Affairs, Political Studies, European Journal of International Law and European Journal of Political Theory. She currently serves as an associate editor of the journal Global Governance.

Pietro Maffettone is Lecturer in Global Politics and Ethics in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. He received his BA from La Sapienza (Rome) and his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works on global justice, ethics and international affairs, and contemporary moral and political philosophy.

David Miller is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and an Official Fellow of Nuffield College. Among his published books are On Nationality (1995), Principles of Social Justice (1999), Citizenship and National Identity (2000), National Responsibility and Global Justice (2007), Justice for Earthlings: Essays in Political Philosophy (2013) and Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration (2016). Besides theories of territory, his research interests include social and global justice, human rights and immigration.

Darrel Moellendorf is Cluster Professor of International Political Theory at the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, and Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice (2002), Global Inequality Matters (2009), and The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy (2014). He co-edited Jurisprudence (with Christopher J. Roederer, 2004), Current Debates in Global Justice (with Gillian Brock, 2005), Global Justice: Seminal Essays (with Thomas Pogge, 2008) and The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics (with Heather Widdows, 2014). He has been a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), a Senior Fellow at Justitia Amplificata at Goethe Unviersität-Frankfurt and the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (Bad Homburg) and the recipient of NEH (USA) and DAAD (German) grants.

Margaret Moore is a Professor in the Political Studies Department at Queen's University, Ontario. She is the author of A Political Theory of Territory (2015), Ethics of Nationalism (2001) and Foundations of Liberalism (1993). Her main current interests are territorial rights, issues of historic injustice, global justice and the relationship between just war, secession and rebellion.

Laura Valentini is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests lie in contemporary political theory, with a particular focus on international normative theory, methodology in political theory, and democratic theory. She is the author of Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative Framework (2011) and of several articles on international and domestic justice. She is a co-founder of The Global Justice Network and a co-editor of the online journal Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric.

Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy and Law at the School of Law, King's College London. His book is Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence and the Rules that Run the World (2016).

Danielle Zwarthoed is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Montreal. She is the author of Comprendre la pauvreté. John Rawls, Amartya Sen (2009) and has contributed to Theory and Research in Education and the Review of Economic Philosophy. Her main research interests include intergenerational justice, the political philosophy of education, and migrations.

This book explores the main topics in, and approaches to, global political theory. The acceleration of globalization since the 1980s has fundamentally challenged the thought that normative political ideas can be confined to the internal life of states. Partly as a result of this transformation of the political landscape, global political theory, in the last three decades, has attracted an increasing amount of attention within the broader fields of moral and political philosophy.

This original and comprehensive volume aims to provide a conceptual map of contemporary global political theory. Its authors include many of the most prominent scholars who have worked in the field as well as important emerging voices. The collection offers theoretical contributions to the most significant research topics in global political theory and international ethics more broadly. The themes covered include: global distributive and political justice, human rights, just war theory, trade, capital mobility, territorial rights, natural resources, climate change and intergenerational justice.

Many edited volumes have appeared in recent years on specific aspects of global political theory. However, we think that none of these fully capture the fact that global political theory is increasingly becoming part of the core curriculum for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in moral and political philosophy. We have thus attempted to construct a book that can be used for both research and teaching purposes. The number of original essays (15, including the editors’ introduction) and the conceptual progression of the chapters make this collection an ideal basic text for a course on global political theory. At the same time, the fact that the contributions are all originally developed for this volume means that scholars and research students alike will find the book relevant to their work.

As for all successful collective endeavours, cooperation and mutual learning have been at the heart of our experience acting as editors of this collection. The responsiveness and positive engagement, not to mention the intellectual acumen, that all the contributors brought to the table for the whole duration of the project has been remarkable. Over the past two years, we have not so much been in charge of a task as part of a global philosophical conversation. For this, we are delighted and grateful.

Last but not least, we would like to thank Polity, and especially Louise Knight, Pascal Porcheron and Sarah Dancy, for their moral and material support and, most of all, for their unflinching patience. Publishers have the daunting task of reconciling academic delays with real world pressures. The graciousness and professionalism shown by Polity, in this and many other respects, has been outstanding. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the research assistance of David Van-Rooyen and thank him for all his hard work.