ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author addresses the distributive and retributive aspects of justice within the context of how he is to understand what the world looks like. Justice primarily concerns distributive justice, in which author consider how goods and services ought to be distributed to the peoples of the world. The author considers five prominent theories of international distributive justice: kraterism, unfettered capitalism, aristocracy, socialism, and egalitarianism. The secondary concern of justice concerns retributive justice, in which states or other groups seek redress for real or perceived harms. International retributive justice is the theory and mechanism that addresses the giving back to aggrieved peoples and nations in the face of wrongs that have been done to them. Retribution is about crime against individuals within a state and about the state's responsibility to make whole its own citizens who have been wronged.
