applied ethics. Her books include Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (2009), Debating Brain Drain (with Michael Blake, 2015), Cosmopolitanism versus Non-Cosmopolitanism (2013), Justice for People on the Move (2020), and Migration and Political Theory (2021). She has received several prestigious awards including a Fulbright Award in 2005 and she was joint winner of the 2014 Amartya Sen Prize.
Brock applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Corruption and Global Justice, and reported the following:
In this book I argue that those concerned with global justice matters should also be concerned with corruption, a major obstacle to achieving peaceful, inclusive and just communities across the world. I offer a normatively justified account of how to allocate responsibilities for addressing corruption across the many agents who can and should play a role. In order to know who should take responsibility and how they should do so, we need to understand multiple forms of corruption, the corruption risks associated with various activities, the interventions that tackle corruption effectively, and current policy and legal frameworks in place for addressing corruption.Learn more about Corruption and Global Justice at the Oxford University Press website.
An important part of the book is offering an account of how to assign responsibilities for addressing corruption fairly. So we need a deep understanding of how to address corruption effectively. What we ought to do concerning addressing corruption must track evidence about the kinds of interventions that are likely to be effective. Such understanding is also crucial to assigning responsibilities to particular agents fairly. Throughout the book I introduce different case studies to illustrate the multiplicity of corruption risks we face and how they manifest to thwart global justice efforts. As we come to appreciate, corruption takes many forms and many tools are needed to address it. These examples illustrate the complexities involved and the details of what needs to change in particular sectors to tackle particular corruption problems while also illustrating some dominant commonalities.
After canvassing some of the impressive insights on how to address corruption in Chapter 4, in Chapter 5 I begin to consider how well they have been brought to bear on real world initiatives, treaties, policies and other measures, so we can assess the effectiveness of various corruption-reducing mechanisms. On page 99 I discuss evidence of effectiveness for a particular initiative operating in some countries to curb corruption in extractive industries (such as mining for oil). I show that this initiative, which aims to promote transparency and accountability around revenue related to extraction, has an impressive track record of success so far. It serves as one example of the kind of measure that particular agents should support. Together with the many other cases of specific measures that assist in addressing corruption discussed throughout the book, readers gain an understanding of how to tackle this global scourge and how to fulfill important obligations to build relevant collaborations to form corruption-resisting communities.
--Marshal Zeringue
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