Christine Chwaszcza develops in Moral Responsibility and Global Justice (MRGJ) (2007) and Beyond Cosmopolitanism (2008) a normative non-ideal theory of international relations that is based on human rights as standards of legitimacy for institutions.
Human Rights as Standards of Legitimacy
Human rights, Chwaszcza argues, are not to be misunderstood as a specific catalog of individual legal rights, but should be regarded as moral standards. The normative core of human rights standards is that the central moral concern should be the respect of individual physical and psychological integrity (“principle of individualism”), the equal – moral and legal – status of individuals (“principle of moral equality”), and the liberty of individuals to live according to freely chosen values and beliefs (“principle of ethical individualism”). The relevant institutions of transnational justice are sociopolitical and legal institutions which comprise states and international organizations as well as...
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Unger, D. (2011). Chwaszcza, Christine. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_671
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