Rawls International Justice Analysis

The Difficulty of Rawls in relation to His International Justice. From the International legal perspective, Rawls approach can be inadequate in two respects.

As we saw above, the Law of Peoples is not an adequate account of the content of the contemporary international law. And secondly, Rawls Law of People fails in its vision of what a liberal international law should be from a normative point of view.

With respect to the adequacy of Rawls’s approach to international law, “his methodology is statist” Statist would mean that Rawls considers the power of the state over individual or better would be that a person who believed that the power of the unified state is needed to correct the failings of human greed, ignorance as a whole rather

We can noe look at a different critics of how Rawls account fails to lead contemporary international law in the direction that many liberal theorist think and believe it must go, that is, towards a full treatment of the problem of inequality and its distributive implications. With respect to the problem of inequality, Rawls can again be criticized as illiberal in that he “articulates a principle of economic justice, the duty of mutual assistance, which would not be chosen by representatives of individuals as a principle of domestic justice.” As in any governing system, illiberal is where the civil society is cut off from the knowledge of the government by those in power and authority. It lacks civil liberty and not an open society. This is troubling , as F Gracia points out, “the international distributive problem dwarfs the domestic one.” Rawls limits his theoretical initiative to principles of justice for a closed domestic society. Although Rawls is working at the level of ideal theory, one can question the degree to which his assumption of self-sufficiency on the part of domestic societies is realistic or even justifiable, and

“As the international trade regulatory system has grown in scope and institutional capacity with the creation of the world Trade Organization (WTO), the gains from such social cooperation increase, as does the institutional capacity for decision-making and enforcement of the resulting norms.” Therefore, international economic relations and international economic law can be said to involve the creation of benefits from social cooperation. The need to allocate such benefits raises precisely the same sort of issues that are raised in domestic society when such benefits were to be