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16Reflections on reform intervention: a reply to criticsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. forthcoming.Here, I reply to four commentaries on my recent book, Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention. I clarify and extend several topics from the book, including the relationship of ‘reform intervention’ to other ways of promoting global justice, the implications questions of identity and societal membership have for my theory of reform intervention, the status of individuals and collectives in my theory, and how my account of toleration relates to other liberal values and …Read more
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9Not just war by other means: Cross‐border engagement as political struggleConstellations. forthcoming.Constellations, EarlyView.
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56Justice, injustice, and artificial intelligence: Lessons from political theory and philosophyBig Data and Society 9 (1). 2022.Some recent uses of artificial intelligence for facial recognition, evaluating resumes, and sorting photographs by subject matter have revealed troubling disparities in performance or impact based on the demographic traits of subject populations. These disparities raise pressing questions about how using artificial intelligence can work to promote justice or entrench injustice. Political theorists and philosophers have developed nuanced vocabularies and theoretical frameworks for understanding a…Read more
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48Citizen responsibility and group agencyEuropean Journal of Political Theory 23 (2): 267-276. 2024.If a state commits injustice, who is responsible for compensating its victims and safeguarding against future wrongdoing? Do the state’s citizens bear this responsibility? Do they all bear it equally? Avia Pasternak's and Holly Lawford-Smith's recent books address these pressing questions. Each book represents a thought-provoking attempt to derive an account of citizen responsibility for state wrongs from an account of state agency understood as group agency. Though the books demonstrate the pro…Read more
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4Toward an Individualist Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism (review)Millennium - Journal of International Studies 48 (3): 360-71. 2020.
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20Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform InterventionOxford University Press. 2021.This book explores when, and using what means, global political actors are morally justified in promoting their own ideas of justice in foreign societies. It develops ethical principles we can use to judge when such activities (“reform interventions”) are justified. In so doing, it re-conceives the traditional boundaries of politics and lays the foundation for a politically-engaged cosmopolitanism.
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16Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand & Political Reality, edited by C.A.J. Coady, Ned Dobos, and Sagar Sanyal (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 17 (2): 229-232. 2020.
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106Promoting Justice Across BordersPolitical Studies 69 (2): 237-56. 2021.Political theorists have written a great deal about the ethics of “intervention,” defined as states using coercion or force to interfere in foreign societies’ politics. But this work leaves much of global politics un-analyzed—both because non-state actors play an increasingly significant role in it and because its practitioners use many tactics besides force and coercion.We need an ethics of foreign influence to help us navigate the global political arena in all its complexity. Here, I begin to …Read more
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33A Defense of Individualism in the Age of Corporate RightsJournal of Political Philosophy 25 (3): 281-302. 2017.Views that say corporations can be agents in their own right, metaphysically distinct from their individual members, are increasingly popular. Given the moral significance usually attributed to agency, this raises the question of whether corporate agents have moral rights comparable with those of individual agents. In this article, I argue that, even if we accept corporations can be agents, we must conclude that their moral rights are more limited than, because they are derivative of, the rights…Read more
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Political Theory |
Global Justice |
Intervention |
Political Legitimacy |
Sovereignty |
Moral Cosmopolitanism |
Political Cosmopolitanism |