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<br> This innovative rethinking of basic elements of liberal democracy in a global perspective, together with the probing criticisms of her distinguished commentators and her responses to them, offer the reader a superabundance of concentrated political-theoretical insight. --Thomas McCarthy, John C. Shaffer Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University<p><br> Can the sovereignty of the democratic state resist the growing pressures for a cosmopolitan order of global justice based on universal human rights? With her characteristic analytic acumen, Seyla Benhabib crafts a subtle and original answer to this pressing question. Challenged by the trenchant criticisms of Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, and Jeremy Waldron, she further refines and develops an argument that is destined to be recognized as a major contribution to 21st-century political theory. --Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley<p><br> This is an exception

This innovative rethinking of basic elements of liberal democracy in a global perspective, together with the probing criticisms of her distinguished commentators and her responses to them, offer the reader a superabundance of concentrated political-theoretical insight. --Thomas McCarthy, John C. Shaffer Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University<br> Can the sovereignty of the democratic state resist the growing pressures for a cosmopolitan order of global justice based on universal human rights? With her characteristic analytic acumen, Seyla Benhabib crafts a subtle and original answer to this pressing question. Challenged by the trenchant criticisms of Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, and Jeremy Waldron, she further refines and develops an argument that is destined to be recognized as a major contribution to 21st-century political theory. --Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley<br> This is an exceptionally demanding book. It deserves to be read by serious students of political theory and cosmopolitan thought. --Michael Blake, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br>

<br> This innovative rethinking of basic elements of liberal democracy in a global perspective, together with the probing criticisms of her distinguished commentators and her responses to them, offer the reader a superabundance of concentrated political-theoretical insight. --Thomas McCarthy, John C. Shaffer Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University<br> Can the sovereignty of the democratic state resist the growing pressures for a cosmopolitan order of global justice based on universal human rights? With her characteristic analytic acumen, Seyla Benhabib crafts a subtle and original answer to this pressing question. Challenged by the trenchant criticisms of Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, and Jeremy Waldron, she further refines and develops an argument that is destined to be recognized as a major contribution to 21st-century political theory. --Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley<br> This is an exceptionally d

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Seyla Benbahib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University.

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