The book is an argument about the moral foundations of foreign policy. It argues that the traditional idea of liberal equality can be interpreted so as to give moral guidance to policy leaders in understanding what they ought to seek internationally.

• Introduction: Toby Ziegler's Faith


• 1: On the Possibility of a Just State


• 2: States, Persons, and Equality


• 3: Tolerance, Imperialism, and Democracy


• 4: Poverty, Inequality, and Politics


• 5: Economic Justice, Coercion, and Foreign Policy

Michael Blake is Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, where he is Director of the Program on Values in Society. He has previously taught in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.