John J. Davenport

Gebundenes Buch

A League of Democracies

Cosmopolitanism, Consolidation Arguments, and Global Public Goods

Beschreibung

This work argues for a Democratic League that would provide a legal order capable of uniting the strength and inspiring moral vision of democratic nations to improve international security, stop mass atrocities, and assist developing nations in overcoming corruption and poverty.

Autor

John J. Davenport is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, where he directed the Peace & Justice Studies program from 2014 to 2018. In addition to two monographs on topics in moral psychology, and two co-edited collections on Kierkegaard and virtue ethics, John has published several essays on just war theory, the responsibility to protect, and the idea of democratic federation (as well as other topics in democratic theory). He is now preparing books on a Habermasian argument for a universal right to democracy, justice as stewardship of public capital, the errors of political libertarianism, and the need for a new constitutional convention to fix the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781138485228
• ISBN-10: 1138485225
• Artikelnr.: 53488149