 In recent years, the debate about institutions and justice has broadened significantly. Some, as we will discuss in section 4, have begun to question whether institutions are all that significant from the standpoint of justice. Others, however, have begun to expand the toolkit with which global institutions are to be judged. The resurgence of republican thought in recent years has offered an opportunity for thinkers concerned with domination to examine how global institutions might be understood from the standpoint of republican justice. In this section, we will lay out the basic tenets of neo-republicanism and explain the major positions that have been staked out in their application to issues of global concern.