Lecture
CPP Colloquium "Global Justice Beyond North vs South"
- Date
- Thursday 6 March 2025
- Time
- Series
- CPP Colloquia 2024-2025
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.48
The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Tom Wells, Lecturer at our Institute for Philosophy.
His teaching focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy, including courses on on global justice, capitalism, power, resistance, and war.
Abstract
In 1970 there was a clear division between rich and poor (and communist) countries. Now the overwhelming majority of the world’s population live in countries that are neither rich nor poor. How does this rise of ‘middling’ countries alter the landscape of global justice? For example, do middling countries owe duties of their own to assist the very poorest countries and to actively participate in the provision of global public goods such as peace and climate stability? How are those obligations different from those of the traditional ‘global north’? This paper attempts some preliminary agenda setting for what promises to be an important and interesting area of research in the global justice literature, within and beyond academia. In particular, it identifies various ways in which the rise of middling countries challenges heuristics that have become common sense in many parts of the global justice literature, such as the significance of relative wealth for judging the moral agency of states and the conflation of justice with distributive economic concerns.
About the Center for Political Philosophy (CPP) Colloquia Series
The CPP is a collaboration between the Institute for Philosophy and the Institute for Political Science at Leiden University. Attendance of the Colloquia is free and there is no need to register. See CPP for more information. For further questions please contact dr. Tim Meijers at t.meijers@hum.leidenuniv.nl
All are welcome!