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Selected Works

2013

Frank J. Garcia

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Between Cosmopolis And Community: Globalization And The Emerging Basis For Global Justice, Frank J. Garcia May 2013

Between Cosmopolis And Community: Globalization And The Emerging Basis For Global Justice, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

Globalization is fundamentally transforming economic and social relations but its impact has yet to be fully realized in jurisprudence and political theory. In this article I argue that globalization is creating new normative possibilities by developing the social basis for a truly “global” justice, thereby transcending the objections most commonly raised by contractarian and communitarian critics. As globalization reduces or eliminates the role of time and space in many kinds of interactions, we see emerging a new global community, consisting of shared understandings, practices, and traditions capable of supporting obligations of justice at a global level. Members of this global …


Between Cosmopolis And Community: Globalization And The Emerging Basis For Global Justice, Frank J. Garcia May 2013

Between Cosmopolis And Community: Globalization And The Emerging Basis For Global Justice, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

Globalization is fundamentally transforming economic and social relations but its impact has yet to be fully realized in jurisprudence and political theory. In this article I argue that globalization is creating new normative possibilities by developing the social basis for a truly “global” justice, thereby transcending the objections most commonly raised by contractarian and communitarian critics. As globalization reduces or eliminates the role of time and space in many kinds of interactions, we see emerging a new global community, consisting of shared understandings, practices, and traditions capable of supporting obligations of justice at a global level. Members of this global …