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John Rawls International Justice Analysis

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4.1. International Jurisprudence
I would like to introduce the issue of international justice through the evaluation and analysis of John Rawls’ work The Law of Peoples. I do not intend to go through all the main issues Rawls’ work deals with nor shall I consider whether Rawls’ theory of justice is consequently applied. I shall rather focus on some issues of international justice. Regarding the International Justice, A Forster further asserts that it is, “a pacific international cooperation between liberal and decent society. It is an appropriate set of principles according to which relations between societies can be organized in as peaceful, stable and just manner as possible.” The principal point for the content of the Law of Peoples …show more content…

“They have to make the relation of the society stable for the right reason.” Because the rights as stipulated under the United Nation include “those of nations to self-determination, of races to freedom from discrimination, and of classes to freedom from neo-colonialism.” The right will include the right to work and earn a just remuneration and their liberty to form and join unions which is a participation in the life of their society for it serves their basic interest. According to N.J Rengger, “all that dominated the International Relation theory in the twentieth century is in many way liberal attempt to solve the problem of order that have largely set stage.”
Rawls is not making an attempt to construct a general theory of international justice but rather an attempt to demonstrate what liberal should be committed to, within the world politics. [Therefore to show what is needed to be done to make such a theory of International Justice universal, though can be applied in particular contexts, in a sense that they can be the object of consensus for a heterogeneous group of agents. This implies that the International justice only for liberal …show more content…

“The necessity of legal authorities protecting human rights and of tribunals preserving ius gentium which would mean the law shared by civilized people.” The law of nations is made up of an unchangeable part, which coincides with natural

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