David Held (editor) - Global Political Theory

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

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

Description: Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015046789 (print) | LCCN 2016006792 (ebook) | ISBN 9780745685175 (hardback) | ISBN 9780745685182 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780745685205 (Mobi) | ISBN 9780745685212 (Epub)

Subjects: LCSH: International relationsMoral and ethical aspects. | International economic relationsMoral and ethical aspects. | International organizationMoral and ethical aspects. | International cooperationMoral and ethical aspects. | GlobalizationPolitical aspects.

Classification: LCC JZ1306 .G655 2016 (print) | LCC JZ1306 (ebook) | DDC 172/.4dc23

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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 thique (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 Normativitt und Macht (2015).

Axel Gosseries is Matre 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 gnrations (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