Self-Determination Without Nationalism

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.

• PrefaceIntroduction1 Distinguishing Peoples from Nations2 Self-Determination and Minority Rights3 Self-Determination and Plebiscitary Democracy4 Ethical Communities without Nations5 The Illusion of Global Community6 The Contemporary Revival of Sovereignty7 The Legitimacy of Sovereignty ClaimsConclusionNotesIndex

"Self-Determination without Nationalism is a serious and novel contribution to the ongoing dialogue about 'globalization' among philosophers and political theorists.... There is much of great interest for readers in this book."-William L. McBride, Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University