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Cosmopolitanism, Institutions, and Responsibility: Comments on the Recent Work of David Miller

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This paper examines three recent themes in the work of the political philosopher David Miller: his general conception of global justice, his efforts to construct a theory of responsibility to cope with the challenges of global justice, and his national-identity centered critique of cosmopolitan theory. The first part of this paper responds to several of Miller's critical arguments regarding cosmopolitanism, arguing that at important junctures in his critical assessment, he relies on a unnecessarily stunted version of cosmopolitanism, which is directly connected to a misreading of the specific nature of the nation-state. The second section discusses some of the difficulties and shortcomings in Miller's (otherwise highly appealing) "connection theory" of responsibility, and makes the case that Miller's thinking about responsibility and would be well-informed by entertaining some cosmopolitan possibilities foreclosed by his unnecessarily broad dismissal of cosmopolitan positions. A more moderate form of institutional cosmopolitanism (one that doesn't figure prominently in Miller's critiques) can go a long way toward making Miller's connection theory of responsibility more appealing and plausible.

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Watkins, David. "Cosmopolitanism, Institutions, and Responsibility: Comments on the Recent Work of David Miller" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p98184_index.html>

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Watkins, D. J. , 2006-03-22 "Cosmopolitanism, Institutions, and Responsibility: Comments on the Recent Work of David Miller" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p98184_index.html

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Abstract: This paper examines three recent themes in the work of the political philosopher David Miller: his general conception of global justice, his efforts to construct a theory of responsibility to cope with the challenges of global justice, and his national-identity centered critique of cosmopolitan theory. The first part of this paper responds to several of Miller's critical arguments regarding cosmopolitanism, arguing that at important junctures in his critical assessment, he relies on a unnecessarily stunted version of cosmopolitanism, which is directly connected to a misreading of the specific nature of the nation-state. The second section discusses some of the difficulties and shortcomings in Miller's (otherwise highly appealing) "connection theory" of responsibility, and makes the case that Miller's thinking about responsibility and would be well-informed by entertaining some cosmopolitan possibilities foreclosed by his unnecessarily broad dismissal of cosmopolitan positions. A more moderate form of institutional cosmopolitanism (one that doesn't figure prominently in Miller's critiques) can go a long way toward making Miller's connection theory of responsibility more appealing and plausible.

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Cosmopolitanism with (and against) David Miller International Studies Association Annual Conference San Diego CA March 2006 David J Watkins University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts Comments welcome and appreciated (dwatkins@u.washington.edu) Political theory has in recent years taken a cosmopolitan turn.1 The global dimensions of the perennial questions and concepts of political theorists have taken up a great deal of space in the top journals in the field and the many of the leading political theorists of
Political Morality: A Theory of Liberal Democracy. London: Continuum. Waldron J. (1995) Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative. In W. Kymlicka (ed.) The Rights of Minority Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Waldron J. (2000) What is Cosmopolitan? Journal of Political Philosophy 8:2 227-243. Walzer M. (1981) Philosophy and Democracy. Political Theory 9:3 379-399. Weber M. (1946) From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (H. Gerth and C. W. Mills eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wendt A. (2003) Why a World


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