The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and CitizensCambridge University Press, 2004 M11 25 - 251 pages The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership. |
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... define some as members , others as aliens . But when state sovereignty is becoming frayed , and national citizenship is unraveling , definitions of political membership become much less clear . Indeed , few issues in world politics ...
... define some as members , others as aliens . But when state sovereignty is becoming frayed , and national citizenship is unraveling , definitions of political membership become much less clear . Indeed , few issues in world politics ...
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... define some as members , others as aliens . Membership , in turn , is meaningful only when accompanied by rituals of ... defined by the nation - state system , are no longer adequate to regulate membership . Political membership has ...
... define some as members , others as aliens . Membership , in turn , is meaningful only when accompanied by rituals of ... defined by the nation - state system , are no longer adequate to regulate membership . Political membership has ...
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... defined in the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( United Nations 1993 ) , initially only applied to international conflicts . With the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ...
... defined in the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( United Nations 1993 ) , initially only applied to international conflicts . With the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ...
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... define the " boundaries of the national community " ( Jacobson 1997 , 5 ) . Others criticize the Univer- sal Declaration for not endorsing " institutional cosmopoli- tanism , " and for upholding an “ interstatal " rather than a truly ...
... define the " boundaries of the national community " ( Jacobson 1997 , 5 ) . Others criticize the Univer- sal Declaration for not endorsing " institutional cosmopoli- tanism , " and for upholding an “ interstatal " rather than a truly ...
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... defined , many beings whom we would want to recognize as moral agents and as moral victims , such as very young children , the differently abled , and the mentally ill , would seem to be excluded from the moral conversation ...
... defined , many beings whom we would want to recognize as moral agents and as moral victims , such as very young children , the differently abled , and the mentally ill , would seem to be excluded from the moral conversation ...
Contents
On hospitality rereading Kants cosmopolitan right | 25 |
The right to have rights Hannah Arendt on the contradictions of the nationstate | 49 |
The Law of Peoples distributive justice and migrations | 71 |
Transformations of citizenship the European Union | 129 |
Democratic iterations the local the national and the global | 171 |
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Page 7 - Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Page 11 - ... Despite the crossborder character of these rights, the Declaration upholds the sovereignty of individual states. Thus a series of internal contradictions between universal human rights and territorial sovereignty are built into the logic of the most comprehensive international law documents in our world. The Geneva Convention of 1951 Relating to the Status of Refugees and its Protocol added in 1967 are the second most important international legal documents governing crossborder movements.
Page 7 - Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination...