ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates Rawls's reasons for rejecting the idea of global distributive justice. So Rawls clearly is aware of the important differences between humanitarian duties and duties of justice. A principle of distributive justice, on the other hand, is an integral Part of ideal theory, and so would apply as long as there are inequalities between societies, even 'after the duty of assistance is fully satisfied'. The aim of ideal theory is to identify the principles that should govern the relationship between societies with the requisite political and economic conditions to be well-ordered and to comply with the Law of Peoples. In this ideal condition, the goals of justice and stability for the right reasons between societies can be achieved. A Law of Peoples that claims to be 'an extension of a liberal conception of justice for a domestic regime to a Society of Peoples' has to remain steadfast in its commitment to liberalism.
