Abstract
For two decades now, globalization has become the major transformation process of our societies; and normative issues related to it are the objects of an especially intense public and academic debate, with the expression “global justice” being one of the major expressions used in this context. Nevertheless, global justice is still an issue that is not treated as being as familiar to the public and academic debate as justice within a domestic society. One finds an eloquent example of this in one of the major works on global justice, John Rawls’ Law of Peoples. Rawls calls the “law of peoples”, chosen by “well-ordered peoples” and also adopted by “decent peoples”, a “realistic utopia”. According to Rawls, this law is necessarily adopted by well-ordered peoples as well as by decent peoples because of the very nature of their internal constitution.
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These volumes originated in a project that I framed and coordinated as the “Research Training Network” called “Applied Global Justice” at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken (Germany), in friendly and fruitful cooperation with several colleagues from several partner European universities and research institutions: J. Peter Burgess (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway), Paul Cobben (Universiteit van Tilburg, Netherlands), Philippe Coppens (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Luc Foisneau (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, France / Maison Française d’Oxford, United Kingdom), Christian Hiebaum and Peter Koller (Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria), Georg Kohler and Urs Marti (Universität Zürich, Switzerland), and Juan Carlos Velasco (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain). Each of them was in charge of coordinating the research activities in one of the aforementionned spheres of global justice. It was a pleasure for me to work with them. To each of them: thanks a lot, herzlichen Dank, merci beaucoup, merci vielmals, dank je wel, mange takk! ¡Muchas gracias! And thanks to their institutions!
The entire project has been generously funded by the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission and the Swiss Nationalfonds, under the reference HPRN-CT-2002-00231. The aforementioned colleagues and I would like to thank very much the European Commission and the Swiss Nationalfonds for their generous financial support and for the support and advices of the scientific officers of the European Commission, in particular M. Frank Marx.
The colleagues and I would also like to thank all the contributors of the present volumes, especially those who authored several essays, as well as the younger colleagues who received a stipend from the project in order to do research within its thematic domain, especially those who authored a paper in this volume. The stipendiaries are Oliviero Angeli, Henri Culot, Xavier Dandoy, Alex Folscheid, Mirian Galante Becerril, Mikael Glorieux, Freek Grootenboer, Caroline Guibet Lafaye, Cecilie Hellestveit, Dieter Jansen, Mark Jóob, David Kaspar, Isabelle Kreim, Kristoffer Líden, Daniel Loewe, Roland van Loosbroek, Christoph Pasrucker, Matilde Pérez Herranz, Véronique van der Plancke, Margareth Prisching, Marianne Saracco, Sven Gunnar Simsonsen, and Delphine Thivet.
I would also like to express my gratitude to some persons who, in various ways, made this project possible or friendly helped me to realize it: Christian Arnsperger, Michael von Doering, Michaela Elkenhans, Alex Folscheid, Manfred Frank, Philippe Gautier, Stefan Gosepath, Axel Gosseries, Joszef Himfy, Wilfried Hinsch, Michael Martin, Soraya Mehdaoui, John Michael, Justin Morris, Diana Nijenhuijzen, Jérôme Niquille, Ulrich Nortmann, Markus Pins, Thomas Pogge, João Rosas, Philippe Saint-Germès, Daniel Schoch, Rafael Sevilla, Felipe Simmel, Alexandre Travessoni Gomes Trivisonno, and Konrad Utz. I am also grateful to Springer Verlag for publishing these volumes, and especially to Neil Olivier for his patience and his comprehension. Last but not least, I would like to thank Azucena Cruz for her help with the correction and redactional work which made the completion of this volume possible.
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Merle, JC. (2013). Introduction. In: Merle, JC. (eds) Spheres of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5998-5_1
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