Global justice as good governance: A critical approach
Résumé
The problem dealt with in this paper is twofold: Firstly, although the partisans of good governance presuppose - without proving it - that good governance and democracy sit well together, a historical perspective, however limited, allows us to show that this presupposition is dubious. Secondly, the claim to pursue "global justice" as an alternative to neo-liberal governance is indeed trapped in the conceptual framework designed by neo-liberalism. Though they pretend to the contrary, the kind of political legitimacy put forward by global justice movements is not fundamentally different from the kind of legitimacy put forward by neo-liberal governance theories. When applied to international institutions "global justice" can therefore be considered as a form, however critical, of democratic governance.