This notion of the Theology of Liberation as the articulation of a ‘State of Exception’ will be the first of two possibilities put forward as ways of reintegrating both liberationist thinking and CST into con- temporary discussion on the political and economic order. A second way forward concerns the new wave of reflection upon global justice, stimulated to some extent by John Rawls in his 1999 book The Law of Peoples, as well as attempts to go beyond Rawls, such as we find in Amartya Sen’s recent work The Idea of Justice (2009). The refine- ment of our understanding of justice to which this literature testifies runs parallel to the alleged ‘paradigm shift’ in the Theology of Lib- eration, whereby a narrow ‘modernist’ focus upon socio-economic justice has been amplified to include a ‘thick’ description of cultural and spiritual well-being. The possibility of ‘global’ justice – explicitly considered by Rawls and Sen as a ‘realistic utopia’ –acknowledges also the globalised perspectives which are now much more evidently in operation since the heyday of Liberation Theology. Perhaps the most dramatic example is the internationalisation of processes of jus- tice for human rights atrocities, with the trials of perpetrators in El Salvador and Chile creating new contexts for transitional and post- transitional justice in these and other countries. Among other things, such developments raise the question of how we are to conceive of ‘subsidiarity’ in a new globalised context.