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Michael Blake argues that states are the primary sites of justice for persons and that the function of international justice is to ensure that states interact with each other in ways that preserve the capacity of each to realize justice for their own members. This paper will argue that justice among states requires more of states than that they preserve and maintain each other's capacity as primary sites of justice. Justice among states will require some justification, as well, of the claims of states over resources and territory within their borders. Such a justification, I suggest, must presume a global institutional order, and this will introduce the problem of coercion in the international domain. International coercion will have implications for Blake's understanding of international economic justice since it is premised on the claim that the domestic context is coercive in a way that the international arena is not.
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Many thanks to Kit Wellman for his valuable comments on an early draft and for organizing this symposium. My gratitude extends also to two readers for this journal for their helpful suggestions and remarks.
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Tan, KC. Justice Between Sites of Justice. Law and Philos 35, 291–311 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-015-9254-9
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