States, Nations and Borders: The Ethics of Making Boundaries

by Edited by Allen Buchanan , Margaret Moore

• ISBN13: 9780521819718
• ISBN10: 0521819717
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume examines comparatively the views and principles of seven prominent ethical traditions on the issue of the making of state and national boundaries. The traditions represented are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, natural law, Confucianism, liberalism and international law. Each contributor is an expert within one of these traditions and demonstrates how that tradition can handle the five dominant methods of altering state and national boundaries: conquest, settlement, purchase, inheritance and secession. Readers range from upper-level undergraduates to scholars in philosophy, political science, international relations and comparative religion.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: The Making and Unmaking of Boundaries	1	(18)
Allen Buchanan
Margaret Moore
THE JEWISH TRADITION
Making and Unmaking the Boundaries of Holy Land	19	(22)
Menachem Lorberbaum
Man-Made Boundaries and Man-Made Holiness in the Jewish Tradition	41	(16)
Daniel Statman
THE CONFUCIAN TRADITION
The Making and Unmaking of Boundaries: A Contemporary Confucian Perspective	57	(29)
Daniel Bell
Borders of Our Minds: Territories, Boundaries, and Power in the Confucian Tradition	86	(17)
L.H.M. Ling
THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
The Christian Tradition	103	(24)
Anthony Pagden
Christianity and Territorial Right	127	(16)
Oliver O'Donovan
THE NATURAL LAW TRADITION
The Making and Unmaking of Boundaries from the Natural Law Perspective	143	(28)
Richard Tuck
Natural Law and the Re-making of Boundaries	171	(10)
John Finnis
THE ISLAMIC TRADITION
Political Boundaries and Moral Communities: Islamic Perspectives	181	(33)
Sohail H. Hashmi
The Unbounded Law of God and Territorial Boundaries	214	(17)
Khaled Abou El Fadl
THE LIBERAL TRADITION
The Making and Unmaking of Boundaries: What Liberalism Has to Say	231	(31)
Allen Buchanan
Liberalism and Boundaries: A Response to Allen Buchanan	262	(13)
David Miller
THE INTERNATIONAL LAW TRADITION
International Law and the Making and Unmaking of Boundaries	275	(23)
Andrew Hurrell
People and Boundaries: An 'Internationalized Public Law' Approach	298	(19)
Benedict Kingsbury
CONCLUSION
Conclusion and Overview	317	(22)
Margaret Moore
Index	339