The EU’s external migration policy and global political justice. The missing link

This book aims to strike a balance between normative and analytical goals by applying concepts from political theory and international relations (IR) literature. Both fields provide significant insights, each in its own right, and both are enriched with the possibility of mutual dialogue . Political theory offers useful tools to reflect on the concept of justice but frequently fails to be applied to the analysis of the discourse, decisions and actions of concrete political actors at the international level. On the other hand, IR only seldom engages in an ethical investigation of political practices, and when it does so, it tends to reproduce the limits of normative theory. What we propose here is to draw from both traditions to conduct an analysis of the external dimension of the EU’s migration policy, grounded in the perspective of global political justice.