{{Short description|American political theorist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox academic | name = Charles R. Beitz | image = Charles R. Beitz (born 1949) at the 2022 Tanner Lectures on Human Values.png | caption = Giving the 2022 Tanner Lecture at {{Nowrap|UC Berkeley}} | occupation = Academic, professor | discipline = Political Scientist | alma_mater = Colgate University (BA)<br/> University of Michigan (MA)<br/> Princeton University (MA, PhD) | workplaces = Princeton University (2001–present)<br/> Bowdoin College<br/> Swarthmore College | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1949}} | birth_place = | main_interests = Contemporary political thought, democratic theory, global political theory, theories of human rights, norms in international relations }} '''Charles R. Beitz''' (born 1949) is an American political theorist known for his contributions to the field of global justice. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from Colgate University and advanced degrees in philosophy and politics from the University of Michigan and Princeton University. Beitz has held academic positions at Swarthmore College, Bowdoin College, and Princeton University, where he is currently the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics. His work, particularly his 1979 book ''Political Theory and International Relations'', has been highly influential in the literature on global justice. Beitz has received numerous fellowships, served as editor of ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'', and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
==Early life and education== Born in 1949,<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B |url=https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/academy/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bookofmembers/ChapterB.pdf |access-date=October 12, 2024 |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}</ref> Beitz graduated ''summa cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Colgate University. He graduated with a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He continued his education at Princeton University, graduating with a master's degree and a Ph.D. in politics and the Program in Political Philosophy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Charles Beitz |url=https://politics.princeton.edu/people/charles-beitz |access-date=October 12, 2024 |website=Princeton Politics}}</ref> At Princeton, he studied under Dennis Thompson and Thomas Scanlon.<ref name=":1">{{Citation |last=Lister |first=Matt |title=Beitz, Charles |date=2014 |work=The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon |pages=59–60 |editor-last=Reidy |editor-first=David A. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-rawls-lexicon/beitz-charles/E4EBDD78038DE820C76C695FAF11A092 |access-date=October 12, 2024 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-19294-1 |editor2-last=Mandle |editor2-first=Jon}}</ref>
==Academia== Beitz's first academic post was at Swarthmore College, where taught from 1976 to 1991 and chaired the department of political science. He joined Bowdoin College in 1991 as dean for academic affairs and professor of government and legal studies. He returned to Princeton in 2001 as professor of politics<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Charles R. Beitz |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/charles-r-beitz |access-date=October 12, 2024 |website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |language=en}}</ref> and was appointed to the Edwards S. Sanford Chair in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professorships |url=https://dof.princeton.edu/about/endowed-professorships-preceptorships-fellowships/professorships |access-date=October 12, 2024 |website=Office of the Dean of the Faculty |language=en}}</ref> At Princeton, he has been director of graduate studies in the Politics Department and director of the University Center for Human Values.<ref name=":0" />
He was editor of ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' from 1999 to 2010 and now serves as an advisory editor.<ref name=":0" /> He has been a visiting scholar or professor at Harvard University, Columbia University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and New York University School of Law and has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, MacArthur Foundation, American Council on Education, and Guggenheim Foundation.<ref name=":0" /> He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.<ref name="AAAS" />
Beitz's work, along with that of Brian Barry, Thomas Pogge and Henry Shue, has been among the most important and influential in the literature concerning global justice.<ref name=":2">{{Citation |last1=Brock |first1=Gillian |title=Global Justice |date=2023 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-global/ |access-date=October 12, 2024 |edition=Fall 2023 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |last2=Hassoun |first2=Nicole |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref> Of significant interest is his promotion of a cosmopolitan translation of John Rawls's Justice as Fairness domestic theory to the international sphere.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> His most significant work, his 1979 book ''Political Theory and International Relations'', inspired a symposium in the journal ''Review of International Studies'' in 2005. Contributors to this journal edition include Chris Brown, David Miller, Simon Caney, Catherine Lu and Nicholas Rengger.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rengger |first=Nicholas |date=2005 |title=Reading Charles Beitz: Twenty-Five Years of "Political Theory and International Relations" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40072102 |journal=Review of International Studies |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=361–369 |doi=10.1017/S0260210505006509 |jstor=40072102 |issn=0260-2105}}</ref> His ''The Idea of Human Rights'' (2009) won the Estoril Global Issues Book Award in 2011<ref name=":0" /> and was the subject of a symposium in ''Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy'' in 2022.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Álvarez |first1=David |last2=Rosas |first2=João Cardoso |date=January 2, 2022 |title=Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2020.1859219 |journal=Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1080/13698230.2020.1859219 |issn=1369-8230|hdl=1822/83104 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
==Publications==
===Books=== * {{Cite book |last1=Beitz |first1=Charles R. |title=Global Basic Rights |last2=Goodin |first2=Robert E. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |location=Oxford |author-mask1=}} * {{Cite book |last=Beitz |first=Charles |title=The Idea of Human Rights |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-957245-8 |location=Oxford |author-mask=7}} * {{Cite book |last=Beitz |first=Charles |title=Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-691-07791-8 |location=Princeton |author-mask=7}} * {{Cite book |isbn=978-0-691-07614-0 |location=Princeton |author-mask=7 |title=Political Theory and International Relations |last1=Beitz |first1=Charles R. |year=1979 |orig-year= |publisher=Princeton University Press}}
===Articles=== * {{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |date=2013 |title=Human Dignity in the Theory of Human Rights: Nothing But a Phrase? |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papa.12017 |journal=Philosophy & Public Affairs |language=en |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=259–290 |doi=10.1111/papa.12017 |issn=0048-3915|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |author-mask=7 |date=2005 |title=Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115813 |journal=The Journal of Ethics |volume=9 |issue=1/2 |pages=11–27 |doi=10.1007/s10892-004-3312-0 |jstor=25115813 |issn=1382-4554|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |author-mask=7 |date=2003 |title=What Human Rights Mean |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20027821 |journal=Daedalus |volume=132 |issue=1 |pages=36–46 |jstor=20027821 |issn=0011-5266}} *{{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |author-mask=7 |date=2001 |title=Does Global Inequality Matter? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24439453 |journal=Metaphilosophy |volume=32 |issue=1/2 |pages=95–112 |doi=10.1111/1467-9973.00177 |jstor=24439453 |issn=0026-1068|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |author-mask=7 |date=2001 |title=Human Rights as a Common Concern |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3118120 |journal=The American Political Science Review |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=269–282 |doi=10.1017/S0003055401992019 |jstor=3118120 |issn=0003-0554|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |author-mask=7 |date=2000 |title=Rawls's Law of Peoples |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/233369 |journal=Ethics |language=en |volume=110 |issue=4 |pages=669–696 |doi=10.1086/233369 |issn=0014-1704|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |author-mask=7 |date=1999 |title=Social and Cosmopolitan Liberalism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2623634 |journal=International Affairs |volume=75 |issue=3 |pages=515–529 |doi=10.1111/1468-2346.00091 |jstor=2623634 |issn=0020-5850|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Beitz |first=Charles R. |author-mask=7 |date=1975 |title=Justice and International Relations |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2265079 |journal=Philosophy & Public Affairs |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=360–389 |jstor=2265079 |issn=0048-3915}}
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