Introduction

During the last thirty years, the academic debate on global justice, which initially focused on the question of material inequalities, has progressively broadened its scope to encompass other issues just as relevant to the reality of global injustice. Discussions about the theory and practice of human rights, the functioning of international institutions, and the moral significance of global climate change have thus become an integral part of the debate (for an overview, see Tan 2017 or Brock 2017). This change in focus has strongly modified the sociology of the field. Critical theorists, republican scholars, and postcolonial thinkers have joined an original nucleus of liberal thinkers chiefly interested in the distributive aspects of justice. Their respective inputs, sometimes expressed in the form of radical critiques, have greatly contributed to improving our understanding of the complex reality falling under the concept of global justice.