Outputs (10)

Classifying states: instrumental rhetoric or a compelling normative theory? (2017)
Journal Article
Coakley, M., & Maffettone, P. (2017). Classifying states: instrumental rhetoric or a compelling normative theory?. Ethics and Global Politics, 10(1), 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2017.1341793

Many states use a classificatory approach to foreign policy: they put other states into particular categories and structure their engagement and relations partly as a result. There is one prominent modern international political theory – Rawls’ Law o... Read More about Classifying states: instrumental rhetoric or a compelling normative theory?.

Two Views of Assistance (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P., & Muldoon, R. (2017). Two Views of Assistance. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43(10), 998-1021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453717692646

The article makes two substantive contributions to the existing literature on the ethics of international assistance and global justice. First, it builds what we take to be a widely held set of propositions about international assistance into a consi... Read More about Two Views of Assistance.

Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values (2017)
Journal Article
Held, D., & Maffettone, P. (2017). Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values. Global Policy, 8(56), 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12412

In the past four decades topics related to the moral evaluation of global politics have occupied a central part of the philosophical debate. The first three sections of this essay provide a reconstruction of the defining features of the globalization... Read More about Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values.

Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections? (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2018). Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections?. Res Publica, 24(2), 237-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-016-9349-7

The main aim of this paper is to act as a corrective to the comparatively deafening silence of egalitarian political philosophy’s response to the Great Recession. The paper thus provides an accessible analysis of a new strand of empirical research in... Read More about Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections?.

Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2017). Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration. Etica & politica, XIX(I), 353-376

This paper examines Rawls’ duty of assistance (DOA). It argues that some of the major criticisms that have been levelled against the DOA are based on a mischaracterisation of Rawls’ position in ‘LP’. The paper also argues that what many of Rawls’ cri... Read More about Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration.

Cosmopolitanism in a Gridlocked World (2016)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P., & Di Paola, M. (2016). Cosmopolitanism in a Gridlocked World. Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, 6(3), 3-14

Should We Tolerate Benevolent Absolutisms? (2016)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2016). Should We Tolerate Benevolent Absolutisms?. Social Theory and Practice, 42(3), 525-554. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract201642315

In this paper, I argue that the real problem with Rawls’s view of international toleration is that, properly understood, it seems not too inclusive, but not inclusive enough. I examine the standing of what Rawls calls “benevolent absolutisms.” Accord... Read More about Should We Tolerate Benevolent Absolutisms?.

Benevolent absolutisms, incentives and Rawls’ The Law of Peoples (2016)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2016). Benevolent absolutisms, incentives and Rawls’ The Law of Peoples. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 15(4), 379-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594x16650540

Rawls’ The Law of Peoples does not offer a clear principled account of the way in which liberal and decent peoples should deal with benevolent absolutisms. Within the Rawlsian framework, benevolent absolutisms are a type of society that respects basi... Read More about Benevolent absolutisms, incentives and Rawls’ The Law of Peoples.

Toleration, decency and self-determination in The Law of Peoples (2015)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2015). Toleration, decency and self-determination in The Law of Peoples. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 41(6), 537-556. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453714567736

In this article I address two objections to Rawls’ account of international toleration. The first claims that the idea of a decent people does not cohere with Rawls’ understanding of reasonable pluralism and sanctions the oppressive use of state powe... Read More about Toleration, decency and self-determination in The Law of Peoples.

The Law of Peoples: Beyond Incoherence and Apology (2011)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2011). The Law of Peoples: Beyond Incoherence and Apology. Journal of International Political Theory, 7(2), 190-211. https://doi.org/10.3366/jipt.2011.0014

The essay provides a reconstruction of Rawls's The Law of Peoples that makes sense of three main discontinuities between Rawls's domestic theory of justice and his international outlook, namely the absence in the latter of: a) individualism, b) egali... Read More about The Law of Peoples: Beyond Incoherence and Apology.