ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how different approaches to global political justice may inform analyses of the EU's global role. Political theorists long regarded the question of justice as something that was mainly relevant for domestic politics. The chapter outlines some major claims that emerge from the scholarship on global political justice and briefly discusses what they would imply for the EU's global responsibilities. Exceptions notwithstanding, research on the EU's foreign policy has not paid much attention to clarifying the responsibilities ensuing from the Union's global ambitions. Through their focus on the underlying structures of power within the global system, theories of justice direct attention to the ambiguities of global norms, and to the possibility that their contestation is a counter reaction to dominance. They further provide tools that allow scholars to examine questions of political organization and of rights that arise in this context of resistance to dominance.
