Toleration and tyranny in Rawls's "Law of Peoples"

In The Law of Peoples John Rawls extends his recent work on political liberalism to international relations. He posits a global original position whose participants are representatives of peoples, rather than individuals. Principles produced in the global original position include one of toleration that essentially would preclude criticism of "decent" hierarchical states by liberal states, and an injunction against cosmopolitan distributions. I argue that Rawls relies at root on a flawed analogy between individuals and whole peoples, and that his favored principle of toleration tacitly could sanction tyranny or oppressive exclusions within states. The difficulties in sustaining the analogy also greatly weaken the case against cosmopolitan distributions.