Politics as Usual What Lies Behind the

Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some especially difficult areas disfavored by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures, or political tyranny. There, progress is slow, and there may be set-backs. But the affluent states and many international organizations are working steadily to extend the blessings of modernity through trade and generous development assistance, and it won't be long before the last pockets of severe oppression and poverty are gone.

Thomas Pogge is the Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics of the Australian National University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Central Lancashire, and Research Director at the University of Oslo Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature.

General Introduction
What is global justice
Introduction
The extent of global poverty
The moral significance of global poverty
From international to global justice
Interactional and institutional moral analysis
Transnational institutional analysis
The global institutional order contributes to severe poverty
Global poverty is foreseeable and avoidable
Conclusion
Recognized and violated by international law the human rights of the global poor
Introduction
Human rights and correlative duties
The purely domestic poverty thesis
The Panglossian view of the present global order
Is the present global order merely less beneficial than it might be?
The present global order massively violates human rights
The promise of global institutional reform
The first UN Millennium Development Goal a cause for celebration?
Introduction
Reflection one on halving world poverty
Reflection two on tracking poverty by counting the poor
Reflection three on where the line is drawn
Reflection four on relating the IPL to the global product
Concluding thoughts
Developing morally plausible indices of poverty and gender equity a research program
Introduction
The World Bank's tracking poverty by counting people below some IPL
The problematic reliance on CPIs and PPPs
Tracking development with the HDI and gender equity with the GDI
Toward new indices of development, poverty and gender equity
Growth and inequality understanding recent trends and political choices
Introduction
Who benefits from recent growth?
Intra-national inequality
Growth and poverty in China
Global inequality
What next
Dworkin, the abortion battle, and global poverty
Introduction
Dworkin's problematic reconstruction of the pro-life perspective
Review of the alleged inconsistencies of the pro-life perspective
The search for common ground
Global poverty as a competing moral priority from the pro-life perspective
Comparing the responsibilities for abortion and global poverty
Objections to the comparative moral priority of hunger
Conclusions
Making war on terrorists reflections on harming the innocent
Introduction
The uses of terrorism for politicians and the media
Public support for anti-terror policies
One failure in the moral justification for terrorism
Other problems for the moral justification of terrorism
Taking morality seriously
Acting under color of morality
The measures taken in our name
How do we justify our policies?
Moralizing humanitarian intervention why jurying fails and how law can work
Introduction
The amazing appeal to the Rwandan genocide
Would an intervention to stop the Rwandan genocide really have been illegal?
Humanitarian heroes fettered by legal niceties?
The jurying model
How to think about improving the international legal order
Creating supranational institutions democratically reflections on the European Union's "democratic deficit"
Introduction
The Maastricht verdict of the German Constitutional Court
Why the people allegedly cannot play a role in shaping political institutions
The constitutive features of the Union
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
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Politics as Usual What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric

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