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This text seeks to introduce the matter of global justice through an assessment of the conception of John Rawls, as advanced in The Law of Peoples. This work places us in the centre of the seemingly paradoxical character that shapes the attitude of the liberal-egalitarian thinking before the consideration of a model of international justice. The Rawlsian conception of international justice has been criticized as contradictory regarding his conception applied to the domestic sphere. We will seek not only to understand the axis of Rawls' theories in a continuity perspective, but also to assess the pertinence of the model exposed in The Law of Peoples through the duality between justice and humanity. Adapted from the source document.

The constitutionalisation of the European Union has been a major goal of European politics from the late 1980s until recently. It is supposed to enhance the citizens' feeling of belonging and give the Union a clearer political identity and legitimacy. The current euro-crisis seems to have stopped the pursuit of an «ever closer» and constitutionalised Union. National interests and intergovernmental bargaining are now at the centre of European business. While we wonder what will become of the European constitutional project, it remains worthwhile to cast additional light onto what it was suppo

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Justice in a Complex World: An Introduction -- Part I Human Rights and the World Economy: Questions of Scope -- 2 The (Difficult) Universality of Economic and Social Rights -- 3 Economic Justice and the Minimally Good Human Life Account of Needs -- Part II The Applicability of Global Principles - Some Contemporary Dilemmas -- 4 Toward Another Kind of Development Practice -- 5 Three Approaches to Global Health Care Justice: Rejecting the Positive/Negative Rights Distinction -- 6 Restitution and Distributive Justice -- Part III Justice and International Institutions -- 7 Narrow Versus Comprehensive Justification in Humanitarian Aid: A Case Study of the CERF -- 8 Global Justice and the Mission of the European Union -- Index