Abstract
Stemming from John Rawls’ attempt to revitalize the tradition of projects for perpetual peace, the contemporary political-philosophical debate about global justice has often been presented in light of the divide between liberal internationalist (statist) and cosmopolitan normative theories of global order. Although war-related issues – especially connected to the problem of justifying external interventions vis-à-vis mass violations of basic human rights – have received considerable attention, the issue of peace within liberal visions of global order has been generally neglected so far. The paper will investigate the role of peace in the most influential accounts of global justice, taking into consideration the work of John Rawls, Charles Beitz, Michael Blake and Cécile Fabre in order to highlight the connections to intellectual/research traditions such as the projects of perpetual peace and the research on democratic peace and to reconstruct the peace-justice nexus within liberal visions of global order.