Beyond the Law's Reach?

Powerful Criminals, Foreign Entanglement, and Justice in the Shadow of Violence

Shmuel Nili (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-891522-5 (ISBN)

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Beyond the Law's Reach? argues that fundamental assumptions in contemporary political philosophy need to be rethought in the face of pervasive political violence. At an applied level, Nili develops this claim by delving into a series of specific controversies, all revolving around affluent democracies' policy responses to the threat of pervasive violence abroad. Examples include the ethics of giving refuge to beleaguered autocrats to avert civil war in their country, the ethics of prosecuting foreign officials who have colluded with drug cartels, and the admission of oligarchs who acquired their riches by distorting their country's rule of law.

At a more theoretical level, the book shows that the moral principles needed to adjudicate these particular controversies can illuminate broader issues in normative political theory. These range from the philosophy of criminal punishment, through the relationship between the law's letter and its spirit, to the general plausibility of certain moral theories (and meta-theories) as public policy guides. Ranging from influential theories of justice to some of the hardest moral dilemmas facing communities and leaders struggling with the shadow of violence, this book explores the difficult circumstances in which we must aside not just the assumption of a stable liberal democracy, but even the dream of a clear path towards such democracy.

Shmuel Nili is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Nili's work focuses on links between domestic and global injustice, particularly as these relate to corporate agency, corruption, and abuse of power. He has published widely on these themes in multiple leading journals. The same themes also dominate Nili's first three books: The People's Duty (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Integrity: Personal and Political (Oxford University Press, 2020); and Philosophizing the indefensible (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Introduction
1: Conceptualizing the Law's Reach: Violence, the Rule of Law, and the Fragility of Democracy
2: The Law, Unsealed: The Shadow of Violence, Third-Best Justice, and Democratic Entanglement
3: Getting Away With It?: Autocratic Exile, Fairness, and Democratic Entanglement
4: Foreign Entanglement, Foreign Officials, and the 'War on Drugs'
5: Collective Victims Beyond Reach?: Kleptocracy, Integrity, and International Disgorgement
6: Legal Kleptocracy and Third-Best Justice: Pre-Empting Entanglement (I)
7: Pre-Empting Entanglement (II): Hostages and Ransoms Across Borders
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	14.09.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 240 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-891522-5 / 0198915225
ISBN-13	978-0-19-891522-5 / 9780198915225
Zustand	Neuware