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The cosmopolitan-communitarian debate and the International Relations theory: the Rawls's law of people as a middle ground theory

The article debates the main communitarian and cosmopolitan perspectives in terms of international distributive justice in order to rethink the international relations theory, especially the constructivism and the neo-liberalism. Moreover, the article intends to analyze the John Rawls's Law of People for the international arena as a middle ground theory between the communitarism and the cosmopolitism.

Cosmopolitism; Communitarism; International Distributive Justice; John Rawls


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