This authoritative and accessible introduction to the fundamental concerns for justice common to societies around the globe brings together foundational and contemporary concepts, exploring and explaining the major issues from sovereignty and severe poverty to environmental justice and human rights. * The most comprehensive introductory text on global justice * Brings together key foundational and contemporary perspectives * Covers high-profile issues such as poverty, sovereignty, environmental and distributional justice * Each chapter provides illuminating examples from current affairs, as well as a selection of further reading matter to add depth to students' understanding. * Designed to give students of law, philosophy, and politics a thorough grounding in the field * Conceived as an ideal companion text to The Global Justice Reader, revised first edition (2014), yet provides full standalone coverage This book is the first to introduce readers to the core concepts and developing praxis of global justice, giving students of law, philosophy, and politics a thorough grounding in the field. Global justice is the hottest topic in moral and political philosophy and has been the object of intense interest from both academic philosophers and students in related disciplines. An ideal companion to Brooks's edited volume, The Global Justice Reader, this text follows the Reader's thematic structure, probing issues such as poverty and distributional justice, the much-debated notion of sovereignty, and environmental justice. Each chapter provides a wealth of illuminating examples from current affairs, as well as a selection of further reading matter to add depth to students' understanding.