Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Her work on global justice is mostly concerned with the conditions for just membership in a global order and with the consequent transformations of citizenship in a post-Westphalian conception of sovereignty. Benhabib’s work responds to the challenge of defending an articulate balance between unity and diversity in the political organization of human coexistence, and faces this task through a cosmopolitan approach that intends to go beyond interventionism and indifference. The resulting proposal defends a cosmopolitan federation of self-governing polities with porous borders, articulated through an increasingly dense net of global institutions. This cosmopolitan horizon requires the reconceptualization of some central elements of the international system: It entails a workable conception of human rights, a post-Wesphalian conception of sovereignty, the reformulation of democratic...
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Álvarez, D. (2011). Benhabib, Seyla. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_423
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