Andrew Kuper is a contemporary political philosopher whose work focuses on global justice, democratic theory, and the reform of international institutions. He is best known for arguing that democratic principles and legitimate representation can and should be extended beyond the nation-state to global governance bodies. His scholarship engages with cosmopolitan political theory and offers practical frameworks for making international organizations more accountable.
Authored 'Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions' (2004), a foundational text in global democratic theory
Developed a procedural cosmopolitan account of how international institutions can acquire democratic legitimacy
Advanced debates on global justice by engaging and critiquing Singer's and Pogge's approaches to global poverty obligations
Argued for pluralist, non-statist models of global representation that avoid both world-government centralism and nationalist parochialism
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