Self-Determination Without Nationalism - A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty

Omar Dahbour is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is affiliated with CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of Illusion of the Peoples: A Critique of National Self-Determination and editor or coeditor of Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice, Philosophical Perspectives on National Identity, and The Nationalism Reader.

List of contents

Preface

Introduction
1 Distinguishing Peoples from Nations
2 Self-Determination and Minority Rights
3 Self-Determination and Plebiscitary Democracy
4 Ethical Communities without Nations
5 The Illusion of Global Community
6 The Contemporary Revival of Sovereignty
7 The Legitimacy of Sovereignty Claims
Conclusion

Notes
Index

About the author

Omar Dahbour is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is affiliated with CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of Illusion of the Peoples: A Critique of National Self-Determination and editor or coeditor of Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice, Philosophical Perspectives on National Identity, and The Nationalism Reader.

Product details

• Authors: Omar Dahbour
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2014
• EAN: 9781439900758
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0075-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Global Ethics and Politics; Global Ethics and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education