Christian Barry

Christian Barry is Director of the Centre for Moral, Social, and Political Theory (CMSPT) in the School of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University. He also hosts Public Ethics Radio, an online audio broadcast with ethicists discussing timely and important practical dilemmas.

Barry has served as a consultant and contributing author to three of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Reports, was editor of Ethics & International Affairs, and directed Carnegie Council's program Justice and the World Economy. He is currently a Global Ethics Fellow at Carnegie Council.

Barry is co-author, with Sanjay G. Reddy, of International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (2008), and he is also currently completing a book with Gerhard Øverland on the meaning and moral significance of the distinctions between doing, allowing, and enabling harm. Barry's articles have appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, Review of International Studies, International Affairs, Cornell International Law Journal, and Journal of Social Philosophy.

Christian holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, where he was a fellow at the Center for Law and Philosophy.

Selected Publications:

• "The Feasible Alternatives Thesis: Kicking Away the Livelihoods of the Global Poor" (with Gerhard Øverland, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, 2012)
• "On the Concept of Climate Debt: Its Moral and Political Value" (with Jonathan Pickering, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2012)
• "Local Priorities, Global Priorities, and Enabling Harm" (Ethics & International Affairs, 2012)
• "How Much for the Child?" (with Gerhard Øverland, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2011)
• "What is Special About Human Rights?" (with Nicholas Southwood, Ethics & International Affairs, 2011)
• "Sovereign Debt, Human Rights, and Policy Conditionality" (The Journal of Political Philosophy, 2011)
• "A Challenge to the Reigning Theory of Just War" (International Affairs, 2011)
• "Immigration and Global Justice" (Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 2011)
• "Do Democratic Societies have a Right to do Wrong? (with Gerhard Øverland, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2011)
• "Why Remittances to Poor Countries Should Not Be Taxed" (with Gerhard Øverland, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, 2010)
• "Associative Duties, Global Justice, and the Colonies" (with Lea Ypi and Robert E. Goodin, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2009)
• "Egalitarian Challenges to Global Egalitarianism: A Critique" (with Laura Valentini, Review of International Studies, 2009)
• "Responding to Global Poverty" (with Gerhard Øverland, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2009)
• "Does Global Egalitarianism Provide an Impractical and Unattractive Ideal of Justice?" (with Pablo Gilabert, International Affairs, 2008)
• "Fairness in Sovereign Debt" (with Lydia Tomitova, Ethics & International Affairs, 2007)
• "Is Global Institutional Reform a False Promise?" (Cornell Journal of International Law, 2007)

Related Multimedia

• Kim Ferzan on Preventive Justice
• Corey Brettschneider on Hate Speech
• Jon Quong on Self-Defense
• Garrett Cullity on Climate Change
• Law Professor Stuart Green on Property Law
• Prakash Sethi on Apple's Labor Standards
• Seth Lazar on Self-Defense in War
• Microinequalities Inflicted on Women
• Public Ethics Radio: Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions
• Public Ethics Radio: Matthew Rimmer on Intellectual Property and Clean Technology
• Public Ethics Radio: Sarah Holcombe on Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
• Public Ethics Radio: Anne Phillips on Ownership and the Body
• Public Ethics Radio: Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration and Citizenship
• Hilary Charlesworth on Bills of Rights
• Michael Selgelid on Infectious Diseases
• Public Ethics Radio: David Singh Grewal on Network Power
• Public Ethics Radio: Jeff McMahan on Proportionality
• Public Ethics Radio: Discretionary Time
• Health as a Human Right: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities
• Public Ethics Radio: Larry Temkin on Extending Human Lifespans
• Public Ethics Radio: Larry May on Habeas Corpus
• Public Ethics Radio: Leif Wenar on the Resource Curse
• Public Ethics Radio: Jessica Wolfendale on Torture Lite
• Public Ethics Radio: Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation
• International Trade: What Does Justice Demand?
• Politics and Humanitarianism
• The Mystery of Capital: Interview with Hernando de Soto
• After September 11: Shifting Priorities for Global Justice (New York Forum #4)

Other Related Resources

• Ethics and Debt Project (2003-2006)
• Justice and the World Economy (2000-2003)
• Public Ethics Radio
• What Is Special About Human Rights? [Abstract]
• The Carnegie Council Announces the Publication of "Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt"
• Fairness in Sovereign Debt
• The False Dilemma of the Sweatshop
• Promoting Poorer Countries' Interests
• Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice New Book Edited by Christian Barry and Thomas W. Pogge
• Background Papers on Ethics and Debt
• Privatization and GATS: A Threat to Development?
• Dealing Justly with Debt
• Access to Medicines and the Rhetoric of Responsibility [Excerpt]
• Health and Global Justice [Full Text]
• The Ethics of the "New War" in the Aftermath of 9/11
• Ethics and Debt: Project Scope

Expertise:

Global economic justice; international institutions; world health

Link: http://www.cappe.edu.au/staff/christian-barry.htm

Last Updated: Sep 07, 2012

Read More: Aid, Development, Ethics, Globalization, Poverty, Global Economic Justice, International Financial Institutions, International Trade, Labor Rights and the Global Economy, World Poverty

Related Resources:

• Ethics & International Affairs (Publications)
• Ethics and Debt Project (Archive)