Luis Cabrera is one of the firmest advocates of institutional cosmopolitanism among contemporary theorists of global justice. Institutional cosmopolitanism is generally defined in contrast to moral cosmopolitanism, understood as the assessment of the justice of global institutions according to how individuals, rather than states, fare under them. Institutional cosmopolitanism is seen as more prescriptive, advocating the creation of institutions above the state that are able to secure just outcomes. Limited forms of institutional cosmopolitanism prescribe the creation of institutions narrowly focused on international law, distributive justice, or the environment, while stronger versions advocate full global political integration.
Cabrera argues in Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State (2004) that a specific form of world government would in fact be an appropriate political ideal. He focuses on the obstacles in the way of securing distributive...
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Finlay, C.J. (2011). Cabrera, Luis. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_429
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