Condiciones de posibilidad para una justicia global

Abstract

Recognition, as a constitutive part of subjectivity, is a basic need for people as well as for States. The terms of international relationships imposed by a great number of international credit and commerce institutions contradict and undermine such recognition, by means of policies that result in segregation and poverty in the poorest countries. Breaking such logic seems to be the way to enable the existence of conditions of global justice based on terms of reciprocal recognition. A prudential argument is the first step in this process; mid and long-term benefit would be the only rational motivation for international institutions to enable such an openness that would ensure reciprocal recognition. However, this argument is not sufficient, and the objective of a radical inclusion affecting all regions of the planet requires a moral argument based on the idea of equal dignity, inherent to every person. Global justice and its counterpart, local justice, will only be possible through the combination of these two arguments, which would make the existence of a logic of reciprocal recognition possible, thus enabling justice.