Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination
Moral Foundations for International Law
Allen Buchanan
Reviews and Awards
A 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
"In this bold philosophical inquiry, Buchanan (Duke Univ.) develops a justice-based theory of the international legal order and applies it to selected global challenges, including the protection of human rights, political autonomy, self-determination, and secession.... This is an important, wide-ranging work in international political ethics that should be a part of all major academic libraries. It will be especially useful to international political ethics that should be a part of all major academic libraries. It will be especially useful to international relations theorists, international lawyers, and political ethicists."--Choice
"This is, in short, a work that I admire tremendously and embrace as likely to be influential to scholars and graduate students."--David Mednicoff, Law & Politics Book Review