

Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty by Omar Dahbour Temple University Press, 2014

eISBN: 978-1-4399-0076-5 | Paper: 978-1-4399-0075-8 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-0074-1

Library of Congress Classification JC327.D26 2012

Dewey Decimal Classification 320.15

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How do groups—be they religious or ethnic—achieve sovereignty in a postnationalist world? In Self-Determination without Nationalism, noted philosopher Omar Dahbour insists that the existing ethics of international relations, dominated by the rival notions of liberal nationalism and political cosmopolitanism, no longer suffice. Dahbour notes that political communities are an ethically desirable and historically inevitable feature of collective life. The ethical principles that govern them, however—especially self-determination and sovereignty—require reformulation in light of globalization and the economic and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.



Arguing that nation-states violate the principle of self-determination, Dahbour then develops a detailed new theory of self-determination that he calls "ecosovereignty.” Ecosovereignty defines political community in a way that can protect and further the rights of indigenous peoples as well as the needs of ecological regions for a sustainable form of development and security from environmental destruction.



In the series Global Ethics and Politics, edited by Carol Gould. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Omar Dahbour is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is affiliated with CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of Illusion of the Peoples: A Critique of National Self-Determination and editor or coeditor of Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice, Philosophical Perspectives on National Identity, and The Nationalism Reader. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface



Introduction

1 Distinguishing Peoples from Nations

2 Self-Determination and Minority Rights

3 Self-Determination and Plebiscitary Democracy

4 Ethical Communities without Nations

5 The Illusion of Global Community

6 The Contemporary Revival of Sovereignty

7 The Legitimacy of Sovereignty Claims

Conclusion



Notes

Index

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