The Law of Peoples

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The Law of Peoples

Author	John Rawls
Language	English
Genre	Philosophy
Published	1999 (Harvard University Press)
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication place	United States
Pages	208
ISBN	9780674005426

The Law of Peoples is American philosopher John Rawls' work on international relations. First published in 1993 as a short article (1993: Critical Inquiry, no.20), in 1999 it was expanded and joined with another essay, "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" to form a full-length book.^[1] Rawls's basic distinction in international politics is that his preferred emphasis on a society of peoples is separate from the more conventional discussion of international politics as based upon relationships between states. It is an attempt to show "how the content of a Law of Peoples might be developed out of a liberal idea of justice similar to, but more general than, the idea I call justice as fairness" (L.P. p. 3).