The Republican Law of Peoples: A Restatement
21 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2025
Date Written: January 01, 2015
Abstract
This essay tries to provide a sketch of the international arrangements that we ought to recommend as means for coordinating and organizing the behavior of national states, as they currently exist. Rousseau argued for taking men as they are and looking at the law as it might be. Taking states as they are, in a variation on that principle, I ask about the international order that might be. I approach the topic from the viewpoint of the long republican tradition, using ideas developed in recent versions of neo-republican philosophy of politics. Here I look at the international arrangements that might provide each people with a collective version of individual freedom, giving it a non-dominated status in relation to other states and other international agencies.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
(January 01, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5084550 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5084550