Contributors from several countries discuss the central moral issues arising in the emerging global order: the responsibilities of the strongest societies, moral priorities for the next decades, and the role of intellectuals in view of the huge gap between widely expressed moral ambitions and prevailing political and economic realities.

Thomas W. Pogge is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and at Oslo University. The author of Realizing Rawls, he also works on Kant and issues of international justice.