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This chapter aims to reconstruct the various stages of a European-based International Political Theory with a special attention to concepts of justice, a key concept of political theory and philosophy. The chapter presents the prevailing liberal notions of justice of an international political theory, before a conception of political injustice that avoids some of the problems mentioned is presented with due brevity (part I). A second part (II) will be concerned with reconstructing a theory of “political injustice” that offers the possibility of circumventing the above-mentioned problems. A theory of injustice that lives up to the claim of being an international political theory has at least three aspects: it is (a) action-related, (b) focuses on structural injustice at the same time, and also addresses the question of who actually determines what counts as injustice. This is (c) the task of political injustice. Finally, (d) this approach is defended against some important objections.
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Kreide, R. (2021). Justice and Injustice in International Political Theory. In: Paipais, V. (eds) Perspectives on International Political Theory in Europe . Trends in European IR Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77274-1_7
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