Gillian Brock and skeptics of global justice.

What is it about?

Gillian Brock is one of the most important scholars working on global justice today. Her seminal contribution to debates in global justices is, perhaps, her book Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (2009a). The book carefully lays out an account of global justice that takes individuals’ equal moral worth seriously while leaving room for defensible forms of nationalism and group affiliation. It addresses two kinds of skeptic about the possibility of global justice. The first kind of skeptic believes cosmopolitanism is wildly impracticable. The second kind of skeptic thinks cosmopolitanism does not leave space for important kinds of identification and group affiliation like nationalism. The book has three parts. In the first, Brock sets out her cosmopolitan account of global justice. In the second, Brock suggests some concrete ways of improving public policy and making it more just. Finally, Brock considers how this account of what good practice requires can inform theory.

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