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Book SynopsisIn Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship, scholars from a wide range of disciplines reflect on the transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states and on the proliferation of varieties of plural citizenship. The emergence of possible new forms of allegiance and their effect on citizens and on political processes underlie the essays in this volume.
The essays reflect widespread acceptance that we cannot grasp either the empirical realities or the important normative issues today by focusing only on sovereign states and their actions, interests, and aspirations. All the contributors accept that we need to take into account a great variety of globalizing forces, but they draw very different conclusions about those realities. For some, the challenges to the sovereignty of nation-states are on the whole to be regretted and resisted. These transformations are seen as endangering both state capacity and state willingness to promote
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"Excellent, engaging, and enriching, the essays of Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship pursue a wide spectrum of political and methodological approaches to address the state of the national state in the current globalizing moment." * Linda S. Bosniak, Rutgers School of Law-Camden *
Table of Contents
Introduction
—Sigal R. Ben-Porath and Rogers M. Smith
I. WAR, SOVEREIGNTY, AND PLURAL CITIZENSHIPS
Chapter 1. Sovereignty Out of Joint
—Arjun Chowdhury
Chapter 2. War, Rights, and Contention: Lasswell v. Tilly
—Sidney Tarrow
Chapter 3. Subcontracting Sovereignty: The Afterlife of Proxy War
—Anna Tsing
Chapter 4. In Conflict: Sovereignty, Identity, Counterinsurgency
—Nasser Hussain
II. IMMIGRATION, SOVEREIGNTY, AND PLURAL CITIZENSHIPS
Chapter 5. Citizen Terrorists and the Challenges of Plural Citizenship
—Peter H. Schuck
Chapter 6. Immigration, Causality, and Complicity
—Michael Blake
Chapter 7. The Missing Link: Rootedness as a Basis for Membership
—Ayelet Shachar
III. ON COSMOPOLITAN ALTERNATIVES
Chapter 8. World Government Is Here!
—Robert E. Goodin
Chapter 9. If You Need a Friend, Don't Call a Cosmopolitan
—Jeremy Rabkin
Chapter 10. The Physico-Material Bases of Cosmopolitanism
—Pheng Cheah
Chapter 11. Citizens of the Earth: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Governance of the Prior
—Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Chapter 12. The Idea of Global Citizenship
—David Miller
Chapter 13. Why Does the State Matter Morally? Political Obligation and Particularity
—Anna Stilz
List of Contributors
Notes
Index
