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39 Cornell Int'l L.J. 523 (2006)
Is Global Institutional Reform a False Promise

handle is hein.journals/cintl39 and id is 531 raw text is: Is Global Institutional Reform a False Promise? Christian Barryt Comment on Richard Miller's Global Institutional Reform and Global Social Movements: From False Promise to Realistic Hope Introduction ..................................................... 523 1. Prem ises ................................................. 524 II. Strategies for Addressing Harmful Outcomes ............. 525 Il. Prima Facie Reasons to Seek Global Institutional R eform ................................................... 526 A. Potential Benefit ...................................... 527 B. Revealed Preferences .................................. 530 C . V isibility .............................................. 533 D. The Unattractive Alternative: Bilateral Bullying ......... 534 C onclusion ...................................................... 534 Introduction In Global Institutional Reform and Global Social Movements: From False Promise to Realistic Hope,1 Miller tackles the important and difficult ques- tion of what kinds of political strategies ought to be adopted by those who find morally unacceptable the extent and depth of shortfalls that persons currently suffer in their health, civic status, or standard of living relative to the ordinary needs and requirements of human beings.2 Following Miller, I will call such people the friends of humanity.3 Miller concludes that those friends of humanity who currently seek to bring about enduring changes in social conditions to eliminate, or at least substantially lessen, severe harms by developing and implementing large-scale reforms of global institutions will most likely harm those they intend to help: t Department of Philosophy and Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University, and School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin; cbmaximin@gmail.com. I am grateful to Robert Hockett, Matthew Peterson, Sanjay Reddy, and Lydia Tomitova for helpful comments and suggestions. 1. Richard Miller, Global Institutional Reform and Global Social Movements: From False Promise to Realistic Hope, 39 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 501 (2006). 2. 1 shall refer to such shortfalls as harms or severe harms throughout this comment. 3. Miller, supra note 1, at 501. 39 CORNELL INT'L LJ. 523 (2006)

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