Critique de la théorie rawlsienne de la justice internationale d'un point de vue cosmopolitique

Abstract

This article examines how J. Rawls endeavors to do that when elaborating his theory of international justice: sensitive to arguments originating with communitarianism, Rawls has chosen to sacrifice the normative individualism which motivated his initial conception of liberal justice, by according primacy to a state-centred model of international relations and by diluting his fundamental principle of liberalism concerning human rights as well as the difference principle. In order to avoid such unacceptable consequences one would have to draw on a notion of differentiated sovereignty and also a multilateral scheme of cosmopolitan democracy, as do D. Held and T. Pogge. (edited)