In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and
illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems …

Our world is currently divided into territorial states that resist all attempts to change their
borders. But what entitles a state, or the people it represents, to assume monopoly control …

Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary
world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own image, while on the …

We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political
discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing …

The Catalan case is usually depicted in the literature as a typical example of a nation without
state with a predominant civic nationalism, where the importance of dual identities tends to …

In many western democracies today, there are calls to strengthen a sense of common
citizenship as a way of building 'social cohesion'in increasingly diverse societies …

Dual citizenship we may have to recognize as the rudimentary form of that international
citizenship to which, if our words mean anything, we aspire.(Randolph Bourne, Trans …

In 1995 none of the political parties representing the peoples of Bosnia preferred a federal
option. Yet, Bosnia became a federal state, highly decentralised and with a complex …

There is a growing realization among international relations scholars and practitioners that
religion is a critical factor in global politics. The Iranian Revolution, the September 11 …

In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the
Supreme Court of Canada to examine how apex courts manage diversity and conflict in …