Global justice, international relations and the Sustainable Development Goals' quest for poverty eradication. Issue 2 (June 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cimadamore, Alberto D.
• Editors: Deacon, Bob
• Is Part Of: Journal of international and comparative social policy. Volume 32:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 131
• Page End: 148
• Publication Date: 2016-06
• Subjects: poverty -- global justice -- Sustainable Development Goals -- inequality -- human rights -- international relations -- accountability; 361.6105
• DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2016.1198267
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2169-9763

Abstract

Abstract : The paper examines the notion of global justice in the changing context of International Relations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by world leaders in 2015. Structural differentiation of states and the international system is presented as a way to explain limitations and possibilities in the quest of poverty eradication and global justice. The paper ends by assessing how international poverty law and human rights approaches can team up in the search for accountability, defined as the key to transit towards a more just world. It concludes that the political and legal responsibilities emerging from the universal policy agenda of the SDGs (to be implemented according to rights and obligations of states under international law) could pave the way towards global (social) justice.