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389Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and AutonomyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 30 (3): 257-296. 2001.Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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212The right to excludeCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 17 (5): 521-537. 2014.
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81Identity and violence: The illusion of destiny - by Amartya Sen and cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers - by Kwame Anthony AppiahEthics and International Affairs 21 (2). 2007.
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59Toleration and reciprocity: Commentary on Martha Nussbaum and Henry ShuePolitics, Philosophy and Economics 1 (3): 325-335. 2002.Rawls's Law of Peoples has not gathered a great deal of public support. The reason for this, I suggest, is that it ignores the differences between the international and domestic realms as regards the methodology of reciprocal agreement. In the domestic realm, reciprocity produces both stability and respect for individual moral agency. In the international realm, we must choose between these two values seeking stable relations between states, or respect for individual moral agency. Rawls's Law …Read more
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58What is the Border For?Journal of Moral Philosophy 17 (4): 379-397. 2020.Many discussions of the moral dimensions of borders emphasize how those borders foster and sustain a national community. In this paper, I discuss three distinct sorts of goods that might be best preserved in the presence of state borders. The first of these is decolonization; I argue that undermining colonial structures might require political institutions with the right to refuse unwanted outsiders. The second of these is social solidarity; we might find that the inability to exclude outsiders …Read more
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57ImmigrationIn Christopher Wellman (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 224-237. 2005.
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51Equality without Documents: Political Justice and the Right to AmnestyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 99-122. 2010.All modern democratic societies claim to be egalitarian. They do not agree, of course, about what egalitarianism demands; the ideal of equality is hardly transparent and can be plausibly understood to encompass any number of social arrangements and values. Thatsomeform of equality is to be prized, though, is uncontroversial. Indeed, it may be true that all political theories that have stood the test of time can be understood as specifying and interpreting the ideal of equality. Whether or not th…Read more
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50Global cities, global justice?Journal of Global Ethics 14 (3): 332-352. 2018.The global city is a contested site of economic innovation and cultural production, as well as profound inequalities of wealth and life chances. These cities, and large cities that aspire to ‘global’ status, are often the point of entry for new immigrants. Yet for political theorists (and indeed many scholars of global institutions), these critical sites of global influence and inequality have not been a significant focus of attention. This is curious. Theorists have wrestled with the nature and…Read more
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47Review of Seyla Benhabib et al., Another Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Democratic Iterations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (5). 2007.
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39Book Review: Immigration Justice, by Peter W. Higgins (review)Political Theory 43 (3): 412-415. 2015.
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38Agency, Coercion, and Global Justice: A Reply to My CriticsLaw and Philosophy 35 (3): 313-335. 2016.Mathias Risse, Andrea Sangiovanni, and Kok-Chor Tan have offered some subtle and powerful criticisms of the ideas given in my Justice and Foreign Policy. Three themes in particular recur in their critiques. The first is that the arguments I make in that book rest upon unjustified, arbitrary, or contradictory premises. The second is that the use of coercion in the analysis of distributive justice is a mistake. The third is that the global institutional set represents, contrary to my arguments, an…Read more
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37Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration?Oup Usa. 2014.Many of the most skilled and educated citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate. How may those societies respond to these facts? May they ever legitimately prevent the emigration of their citizens? Gillian Brock and Michael Blake debate these questions, and offer distinct arguments about the morality of emigration.
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34Geeks and monsters: Bias crimes and social identity (review)Law and Philosophy 20 (2): 121-139. 2001.No Abstract
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32Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, Amartya Sen (New York: WW Norton, 2006), 224 pp., $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York: WW Norton, 2006), 256 pp., $23.95 cloth, $15.95 paper (review)Ethics and International Affairs 21 (2): 259-261. 2007.
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31Sanctuary Cities and Non-RefoulementEthical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (2): 457-474. 2020.More than two hundred cities in the United States have now declared themselves to be sanctuary cities. This declaration involves a commitment to non-compliance with federal law; the sanctuary city will refuse to use its own juridical power – including, more crucially, its own police powers – to assist the federal government in the deportation of undocumented residents. We will argue that the sanctuary city might be morally defensible, even if deportation is not always wrong, and even if the fede…Read more
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30Miller, Seumas. The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 382. $98.00 ; $29.99 (review)Ethics 121 (4): 820-824. 2011.
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29What should be done to address losses associated with ‘medical brain drain’?Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (8): 558-559. 2017.
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28Immigration, Complicity, and CausalityIn Rogers Smith (ed.), Citizenship, Plural Citizenships, and Cosmopolitan Alternatives, University of Pennsylvania Press. 2013.
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27Are Citizenship Tests Necessarily Illiberal?Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2): 313-329. 2019.In recent years, many philosophers have argued that it is inherently illiberal to make citizenship for migrants conditional on a test. On these arguments, liberalism itself demands either that no test be administered, or that the test be so easy as to serve merely a symbolic function. In this paper, I make two claims in response to these ideas. The first is that a citizenship test - even a difficult one - is not inherently illiberal, when what is tested for reflects the actual backdrop of knowle…Read more
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26Positive and negative rights of migration: a reply to my criticsEthics and Global Politics 9 (1): 33553. 2016.
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25Collateral benefitSocial Philosophy and Policy 23 (1): 218-230. 2006.This essay attempts to identify the ethical principles appropriate to a second-order political agent—an agent, that is, whose primary responsibility lies not in the implementation of state power, but in the response to and evaluation of that state power. The specific agent I examine is the human rights non-governmental organization, and the specific context is that of humanitarian military intervention. I argue that the specific role of the human rights NGO gives rise to ethical permissions not …Read more
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