Birthright,Birthwrongs: Contingency,Choice and Cosmopolitanism in Recent Political Thought Visions of World Community,by Jens Bartelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2009. x + 215 pp. The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality,Ayelet Shachar. Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press,2009. xiii + 273 pp. States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals,Jacqueline Stevens. New York: Columbia University Press,2009. xv + 364 pp
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Birthright,Birthwrongs: Contingency,Choice and Cosmopolitanism in Recent Political Thought Visions of World Community,by Jens Bartelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2009. x + 215 pp. The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality,Ayelet Shachar. Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press,2009. xiii + 273 pp. States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals,Jacqueline Stevens. New York: Columbia University Press,2009. xv + 364 pp
V. Bader, "Citizenship and Exclusion,"Political Theory23 (1995): 211-46, 214.
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See, e.g., R. Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). I offer a critique of the ethnic/ civic nation dichotomy in "The Myth of the Civic Nation," in Theorizing Nationalism, ed. R. Beiner (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998), 103-18.
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J. Stevens, Reproducing the State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
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J. Carens, "Aliens and Citizens," in Theorizing Citizenship, ed. R. Beiner (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999), 229-54, 230. Stevens (p. 19) ups the ante and compares the disabilities created by birthright citizenship to those associated with slavery, not just feudalism.
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A. Pagden, "Cosmopolitanism, and the Legacy of European Imperialism," Constellations7 (2000): 3-22, 20.
