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Clear, judicious, well-informed, timely and argumentatively creative, this book advances Rawls scholarship, laying to rest influential misunderstandings of The Law of Peoples and imaginatively showing how to more fully and charitably specify the content of one of its core principles. What emerges is a principled vision of a robust program of assistance, aimed at building the institutional and political capabilities of impoverished societies currently at the margins of international society. - David Reidy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, USA This is an excellent, well-written, scholarly piece of work, developing an original argument and making a substantial contribution to Rawls' scholarship. There has recently been a greater willingness to see merit in Rawls's international theory, and Williams contributes in a constructive and original way to this trend. In developing a robust account of the duty of assistance, he explores a number of literatures and authors, weaving them together to tell a coherent and interesting story. - Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

"""Williams' account is well informed, well written and well structured . . . this is an important book whose reach goes beyond strict Rawls scholarship"" - Political Studies Review: 2013, Vol 11, 228-310"

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Huw Lloyd Williams is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK. His primary research interests span the fields of political philosophy, international political theory. His focus is on the history of ideas is egalitarian thought, particularly the philosophy of John Rawls.

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