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<p>In <i>Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship</i>, scholars from a wide range of disciplines reflect on the transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states and on the proliferation of varieties of plural citizenship. The emergence of possible new forms of allegiance and their effect on citizens and on political processes underlie the essays in this volume.</p> <p>The essays reflect widespread acceptance that we cannot grasp either the empirical realities or the important normative issues today by focusing only on sovereign states and their actions, interests, and aspirations. All the contributors accept that we need to take into account a great variety of globalizing forces, but they draw very different conclusions about those realities. For some, the challenges to the sovereignty of nation-states are on the whole to be regretted and resisted. These transformations are seen as endangering both state capacity and state willingness to promote stability and security internationally. Moreover, they worry that declining senses of national solidarity may lead to cutbacks in the social support systems many states provide to all those who res

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Author

Sigal R. Ben-Porath and Rogers M. Smith

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812244564

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences