Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book introduces the main contours of the debate by means of reproducing three of the most fundamental and influential essays that have been composed on the topic, thereby providing more people the background necessary to enter and take part in this debate in a meaningful way. It reviews the parochial nature of the global justice debate. The book cautions us about hastily pursuing the postcolonial line of argumentation in the global justice debate and with respect to other crucial issues in the theory of international relations, where postcolonial critique relies upon postmodernist thought.