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16Critical Exchange on the 2010 Nobel Peace PrizeContemporary Political Theory 11 (2): 229-240. 2012.
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31Two Constructions of LibertarianismLibertarian Papers 1 11. 2009.The libertarian first principle—a belief in individual freedom—can lead to two different and not necessarily acceptable societies from the standpoint of liberty. One is the “Union of Liberty,” in which communities, associations, and intermediate bodies are held to rigorous standards of voluntariness . In the other, the “Federation of Liberty,” they are not .While in any free society individuals may voluntarily join together and waive some of their rights , hard questions arise when nonconsenting…Read more
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44Postcolonialism and political theoryContemporary Political Theory 8 (3): 363-365. 2009.Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity …Read more
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166Are Refugees Special?In Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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206Survey Article: Multiculturalism as Fairness: Will Kymlicka's Multicultural CitizenshipJournal of Political Philosophy 5 (4): 406-427. 1997.
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74One Cheer for Constantinople: A Comment on Pettit and Skinner on Hobbes and FreedomHobbes Studies 22 (2): 192-198. 2009.Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner find Hobbes's understanding of freedom as non-interference inadequate because it fails to appreciate what is wrong with a life lived as a slave. Though their critiques have some force, however, Hobbes's view of freedom has virtues of its own. It is highly sensitive to the fact that freedom is a matter of degree. It is also unlikely to mistake freedom for something else, like security or dignity. Moreover, Hobbes is not as unmindful of the dangers of servility as…Read more
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13Islam, Democracy and Civil SocietyJournal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 13 (2). 2003.The purpose of this article, more particularly, is to explore the place of Islam in the modern world-a world which contemporary writers increasingly try to understand by invoking the notions of democracy and civil society.For many, then, Islam stands in a relationship of tension with - if not complete antagonism to - democracy and modernity. It is a religion, and a philosophy, which is a throwback to the middle ages, and an obstacle to human progress.The concern of this essay is to argue that Is…Read more
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37Explaining Moral VarietySocial Philosophy and Policy 11 (1): 1-21. 1994.Reflection on the variety of forms of social life has long been a source of moral skepticism. The thought that there are many radically different social systems, each of which colors the way its members think about moral and political questions, has been thought by many moral philosophers to undermine confidence in our belief that our way of looking at-or even posing-these questions is the correct one. The fact of cultural variety is held to reduce, if not eliminate altogether, the possibility o…Read more
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24Conservatism, liberalism and ideology∗Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 1 (3): 30-44. 1987.Conservatism: Dream And Reality by Robert Nisbet Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. 118pp., $9.95 LIBERALISM by John Gray Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. 106pp., $9.95 IDEOLOGY by David McLellan Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. 99pp., $9?95
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The Dilemma of a Dutiful Daughter: Love and Freedom in the Thought of KartiniIn Debra Satz & Rob Reich (eds.), Toward a humanist justice : the political philosophy of Susan Moller Okin, Oup Usa. 2009.
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183Rawls: ‘A Theory of Justice' and its CriticsStanford University Press. 1990.1 A New Departure 'No commanding work of political theory has appeared in the 20th century.' So said Isaiah Berlin, writing in 1962 . ...
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17Liberal ArchipelagoOxford University Press UK. 2003.In his major new work Chandran Kukathas offers, for the first time, a book-length treatment of this controversial and influential theory of minority rights. The author argues that the free society should not be seen as a hierarchy of superior and subordinate authorities but an archipelago of competing and overlapping jurisdictions.The idea of a liberal archipelago is defended as one which supplies us with a better metaphor of the free society than do older notions such as the body politic, or th…Read more
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55Contextualism reconsidered: Some skeptical reflections (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 7 (2): 215-225. 2004.A number of theorists have touted the merits of the contextual approach to political theory, arguing that a close examination of real-world cases is more likely to yield both theoretical insight and practical solutions to pressing problems. This is particularly evident, it is argued, in the field of multiculturalism in political theory. The present paper offers some skeptical reflections on this view, arguing the merits of a view of political theory which sees the contextual approach as less dis…Read more
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435Are there any Cultural Rights?Political Theory 20 (1): 105-139. 1992.I shall advance the thesis that if there are any moral rights at all, it follows that there is at least one natural right, the equal right of all men to be free. H.L.A. Hart, “Are There Any Natural Rights?”
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68The cultural contradictions of socialismSocial Philosophy and Policy 20 (1): 18-37. 2003.While no one has yet announced the death of capitalism, reports of its imminent demise have been as numerous as they have been exaggerated. Such reports have usually been bolstered by thoughtful analyses of the fundamental contradictions of capitalism, which was expected to come sliding—if not crashing—down under the weight of its own inconsistencies. Leaving aside Karl Marx's own predictions, twentieth-century analysts as diverse as Joseph Schumpeter, Daniel Bell, and Jurgen Habermas have asser…Read more
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74On David Miller on immigration controlCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (6): 712-718. 2017.
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