Christian Barry
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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.
Focus: Debt, Development, Ethics, Finance, Governance, Jobs, Poverty, Trade, Australia, Asia, Global
Related Resources:
- Boat Migrants to Australia Deserve Their Refugee Rights (Commentary)
- Climate Change's Moral Motivations (Audio)
- Apple's Labor Standards (Audio)
- Microinequalities Inflicted on Women (Audio)
- Clean Tech Intellectual Property (Audio)
- Indigenous Intellectual Property (Audio)
- Ownership and the Body (Audio)
- The Arbitrary Morality of Immigration and Citizenship (Audio)
- Institutionalizing Human Rights (Audio)
- The Bioethics of Infectious Diseases (Audio)
- The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run (Commentary)
- Network Power (Audio)
- Shallow Cuts (Commentary)
- Proportionality in Gaza (Audio)
- Discretionary Time (Audio)
- Health as a Human Right (Videos)
- Network Power (Videos)
- Extending Human Lifespans (Audio)
- Does Global Egalitarianism Provide an Impractical and Unattractive Ideal of Justice? (Policy Library)
- Shaking the Resource Curse (Audio)
- Pharmaceutical Innovation and Essential Medicines (Audio)
- Egalitarian Challenges to Global Egalitarianism (Policy Library)
- A Framework and Principles for a Fairer Trading System (Audio)
- The False Dilemma of the Sweatshop (Policy Library)
- Labor Standards and International Trade: A Proposal (Policy Library)
- International Trade: What Does Justice Demand? (Audio)
- Dealing Justly with Debt (Policy Library)
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)