The good, the poor and the ugly: John Rawls and how liberals should treat non-liberal regimes

Abstract

In The Law of Peoples: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited, John Rawls tries to spell out a ’law of peoples’ that both liberal and nonliberal people can agree upon to govern their international relations. If, as seems likely, this is the last book Rawls will write, he could hardly have found a better way to ensure that his work continues to hold centre stage in debates within political philosophy. (Quotes from original text)