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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review: Omar Dahbour, SELF-DETERMINATION WITHOUT NATIONALISM, Temple University Press, 2014. Contact me at george.snede...@verizon.net if you would like to review this book.Here are some blurbs about the book: *"In *Self-Determination without Nationalism*, Omar Dahbour powerfully combines trenchant criticisms of nationalism with the innovative construction of an alternative ideal of collective self-determination as a common project of ethical community. Richly informed and resourcefully argued, his book illuminates central questions in the ethics of international relations and political philosophy as a whole."*-Richard Miller, Wyn and William Y. Hutchinson Professor in Ethics and Public Life and Director, Program on Ethics and Public Life, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University How do groups-be they religious or ethnic-achieve sovereignty in a postnationalist world? In *Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty <http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2049_reg.html>*(Publication Date: September 30, 2014), noted philosopher Omar Dahbour insists that the existing ethics of international relations, dominated by the rival notions of liberal nationalism and political cosmopolitanism, no longer suffice. Dahbour notes that political communities are an ethically desirable and historically inevitable feature of collective life. The ethical principles that govern them, however-especially self-determination and sovereignty-require reformulation in light of globalization and the economic and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. Arguing that nation-states violate the principle of self-determination, Dahbour then develops a detailed new theory of self-determination that he calls "ecosovereignty." Ecosovereignty defines political community in a way that can protect and further the rights of indigenous peoples as well as the needs of ecological regions for a sustainable form of development and security from environmental destruction. In the series *Global Ethics and Politics <http://www.temple.edu/tempress/gep.html>*, edited by Carol C. Gould *Omar Dahbour* is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and Graduate School, City University of New York, and 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 coeditor of both *The Nationalism Reader* and *Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice*. George Snedeker ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
