Table of Contents

Introduction
—Sigal R. Ben-Porath and Rogers M. Smith
I. WAR, SOVEREIGNTY, AND PLURAL CITIZENSHIPS
Chapter 1. Sovereignty Out of Joint
—Arjun Chowdhury
Chapter 2. War, Rights, and Contention: Lasswell v. Tilly
—Sidney Tarrow
Chapter 3. Subcontracting Sovereignty: The Afterlife of Proxy War
—Anna Tsing
Chapter 4. In Conflict: Sovereignty, Identity, Counterinsurgency
—Nasser Hussain
II. IMMIGRATION, SOVEREIGNTY, AND PLURAL CITIZENSHIPS
Chapter 5. Citizen Terrorists and the Challenges of Plural Citizenship
—Peter H. Schuck
Chapter 6. Immigration, Causality, and Complicity
—Michael Blake
Chapter 7. The Missing Link: Rootedness as a Basis for Membership
—Ayelet Shachar
III. ON COSMOPOLITAN ALTERNATIVES
Chapter 8. World Government Is Here!
—Robert E. Goodin
Chapter 9. If You Need a Friend, Don't Call a Cosmopolitan
—Jeremy Rabkin
Chapter 10. The Physico-Material Bases of Cosmopolitanism
—Pheng Cheah
Chapter 11. Citizens of the Earth: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Governance of the Prior
—Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Chapter 12. The Idea of Global Citizenship
—David Miller
Chapter 13. Why Does the State Matter Morally? Political Obligation and Particularity
—Anna Stilz
List of Contributors
Notes
Index

Promotional Information

A broad range of scholars from different disciplines reflect on the likely transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states to the proliferation of varieties of plural citizenship, and on the emergence of possible new forms of allegiance.

About the Author

Sigal R. Ben-Porath is Professor of Literacy, Culture, and International Education in University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and author of Citizenship Under Fire: Democratic Education in Time of War and Tough Choices: Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice. Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of many books, including Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Memberships, and editor of Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Excellent, engaging, and enriching, the essays of Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship pursue a wide spectrum of political and methodological approaches to address the state of the national state in the current globalizing moment."
*Linda S. Bosniak, Rutgers School of Law-Camden*