On hospitality : rereading Kant's cosmopolitan right -- "The right to have rights" : Hannah Arendt on the contradictions of the nation-state -- The law of peoples, distributive justice, and migrations -- Transformations of citizenship : the European Union -- Democratic iterations : the local, the national, and the global -- Conclusion : Cosmopolitan federalism
Summary
The Rights of Others explores the tension between universal principles of human rights and the self-determination claims of sovereign states as they affect the claims of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. Few issues in world politics today are more important, or more troubling, but morally acceptable solutions do nonetheless exist
Analysis
Politics & government
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-238) and index
