Joób
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Global Justice | ||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Politics is based on interests and values. Different interests often come into conflict with one another; hence any politics applies some standard in order to value interests, constructing a hierarchy among them. So as to meet the requirements of justice, such a standard should not only be derived from democratic processes that are founded on individual and collective autonomy but also from other intrinsic values such as physical and mental integrity which, if they are taken into consideration, to some degree determine the result of democratic decision-making. Legally, intrinsic values are represented above all by universally declared human rights. Human rights not only set a limit to national sovereignty but also imply corresponding duties that exceed national borders and hold globally. In my research, I will focus on two questions: - Which universal rights and duties arise from the notion of justice under the condition of globalization, i.e., which standard should be applied to assess interests on the international level? - How would a global legal order able to guarantee these rights and to enforce the corresponding duties look like; in other words: how could an appropriate hierarchy of interests be institutionalized globally? |
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| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Gerechtigkeit, Globalisierung, Menschenrechte, Interessen, Souveränität, Demokratie, internationale Politik, global governance | ||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
EU European Research Training Network "Applied Global Justice" (HPRN-CT-2002-00231) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Oct 2001 to Sep 2006 |