From Arm's Length to Intrusion: Rawls's "Law of Peoples" and the Challenge of Stability

Abdel-Nour, Farid

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“…Michael W. Doyle (2006: 115) thinks that Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but not Saudi Arabia, are among the ‘Kazanistans’ that Rawls has in mind when he describes the hierarchical Islamic societies that are decent enough to be part of the society of well-ordered peoples. Applying Rawls’s three requirements for a hierarchical society to be well-ordered to Saudi society, Farid Abdel-Nour (1999: 326–327) comes to a different conclusion than Doyle: Regarding the first criterion, which holds that the society in question must not have aggressive aims, Abdel-Nour points to the fact that Saudi Arabia has been a relatively peaceful member of the society of states. 9 The country also fulfils the second criterion, requiring that the legal system must be guided by a common good conception of justice, in as much as Saudi law is based on the Sharia interpreted according to the Wahhabi tradition.…”

Section: Mexico and Saudi Arabia As Well-ordered Peoplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rawls’s duty of assistance and relative deprivation: Why less is more and more is even more

Rolf

2018

Journal of International Political Theory

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John Rawls’s case for a duty of assistance is partially premised on the assumption that liberal societies have an interest in assisting burdened societies to become well-ordered: Not only are well-ordered peoples inherently peaceful, but negative spillover effects would also disappear where peoples have a just or decent institutional order. Drawing on relative deprivation theory, this article argues that the kind of limited assistance that Rawls proposes to help burdened societies to become well-ordered would not reduce but actually increase international terrorism and unwanted immigration by raising unwarranted expectations and enhancing the resources that are needed to emigrate. Thus, if Rawls is concerned about negative externalities, he should argue for either more extensive assistance or no assistance at all.

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Section: Mexico and Saudi Arabia As Well-ordered Peoplesmentioning

confidence: 99%