ABSTRACT
Thus far we have used the terms international justice and global justice in a way that may seem interchangeable. However, to assume this would be a mistake, because the terms themselves carry very different connotations. Moreover, an understanding of the difference is informative with regard to grasping important philosophical differences. When the term international justice is used, it tends to be with reference to ideas put forward by a thinker such as Rawls, who regards world politics as being primarily about relations between states. As we have seen, this is reflected in his international theory and his ‘Law of Peoples’, which is largely about identifying the moral duties that hold between states (or peoples, to use his normatively charged term). The focus is reflected in the term international justice because according to this perspective, the concept of justice holds between states; its scope is literally international, or between nation-states.
