Global justice, international relations and the Sustainable Development Goals’ quest for poverty eradication

CIMADAMORE, ALBERTO D.

Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy

Routledge

Año: 2016 vol. 32 p. 131 - 148

2169-9763

The paper examines the notion of global justice in the changing context of International Relations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by world leaders in 2015. Structural differentiation of states and the international system is presented as a way to explain limitations and possibilities in the quest of poverty eradication and global justice. The paper ends by assessing how international poverty law and human rights approaches can team up in the search for accountability, defined as the key to transit towards a more just world. It concludes that the political and legal responsibilities emerging from the universal policy agenda of the SDGs (to be implemented according to rights and obligations of states under international law) could pave the way towards global (social) justice.