Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and
analytic tradition and aims to investigate into the relationship between global justice and
the nation state. It deals therefore especially with the moral relevance of national boundaries
and cosmopolitanism. It is organised in four sections. The first section deals with
cosmopolitan approaches to global justice with regard to which Kok-Choir Tan's article
presents an overview over the current state of the art the challenges that cosmopolitanism is
currently facing and its relationship and contrasts with other theoretical strands. Etinson's
article attempts to clarify the concept of cosmopolitanism. De Angelis's contribution aims to
assess the current argumentative state of the art. The second section discusses more specific
normative issues. The contributions included in this section deal with global egalitarianism
the moral relevance of national boundaries global moral and political obligation and the
relationship of national sovereignty and global justice. The third section deals with the
contribution of Rawls's work to the current debate on global justice. It also contains an
article that deals with the Kantian aesthetic judgement - a topic already developed and made
famous by Hannah Arendt - and its relevance in the context of international political theory -
recently pointed out by Alessandro Ferrara's increasingly influential work. Finally section
four deals with economic justice and discusses principles of economic equality in times of
globalisation and Pogge's idea of a global resources dividend. The book presents both a useful
assessment of the state of the art and valuable contributions to its advancement. The articles
will be of great use both for scholars and for students.
