Abstract

How is global justice possible? How can we realize the principles of socio-economic justice on a global scale? Ending global anarchy or global quasi-anarchy is a necessary condition for realizing such justice, and a legitimate and authoritative world government is a necessary and sufficient condition for global justice. There are four possibilities of global socio-economic justice: the possibility of global justice when the units of such justice are nation-states; the possibility of global justice when the units of such justice are individuals; the possibility of global justice when individuals-based global justice conflicts with nation-states-based global justice; and the possibility of global justice without a world government. There are three kinds of the fourth possibility, which are temporary and transitional.