CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Smith, Rebecca Rose |
|---|---|
| Title | Cosmopolitanism and Global Institutional Design |
| Summary | The question of global justice is urgent, considering current global inequalities and deprivation. However, there is a widespread claim that duties of justice have no global application, because justice only occurs with certain institutional requirements that are not fulfilled on a global scale. In this thesis I argue for a cosmopolitan approach to global justice, and propose criteria for a just global political structure. I begin by presenting four main approaches to justice on a global scale - cosmopolitanism, realism, the “society of states”, and nationalism. I contrast cosmopolitanism, the view defended in this thesis, with the political approach, which makes the claim that justice only occurs within a state. I then argue for the need for global political institutions, both on an intrinsic and instrumental level: they are needed because they provide with fairer procedures, and because they are more likely to produce outcomes that face collective action problems. I present different institutional concerns for global political institutions, balancing claims on both goals and procedures. I briefly illustrate the philosophical conceptions presented in the thesis with three current international institutions, the UN, the WTO and the ICC, remarking on which conception they adhere to and which they violate. In the last chapter, I make a proposal for global political institutions, which is to divide sovereignty vertically. This follows the concerns presented in previous chapters, to achieve the moral cosmopolitan goals of global justice. |
| Supervisor | Miklosi, Zoltan |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/smith_rebecca.pdf |
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