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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Avia Pasternak (Associate Professor in Political Theory, Associate Professor in Political Theory, University College London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 14.70cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780197541036ISBN 10: 0197541038 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 25 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAre citizens liable for their states' unjust acts? Pasternak's excellent book argues for citizen responsibility by highlighting the many ways citizens intentionally act together to support the state. Her important argument illuminates contemporary issues from climate change to reparations for historic wrongdoing. A must-read. * Anna Stilz, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University * States have committed many of the gravest wrongs in human history, and these wrongs demand a response. But imposing liability on states for their wrongdoing threatens to harm innocent members of those states, who bear no responsibility for these wrongs. And harming the innocent is hard to justify. Avia Pasternak's subtle, penetrating and powerful book provides a deeply thought out response to this dilemma that anyone working on the problem of responses to state wrongdoing must grapple with. * Victor Tadros, Professor of Law, The University of Warwick * """Are citizens liable for their states' unjust acts? Pasternak's excellent book argues for citizen responsibility by highlighting the many ways citizens intentionally act together to support the state. Her important argument illuminates contemporary issues from climate change to reparations for historic wrongdoing. A must-read."" -- Anna Stilz, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University ""States have committed many of the gravest wrongs in human history, and these wrongs demand a response. But imposing liability on states for their wrongdoing threatens to harm innocent members of those states, who bear no responsibility for these wrongs. And harming the innocent is hard to justify. Avia Pasternak's subtle, penetrating and powerful book provides a deeply thought out response to this dilemma that anyone working on the problem of responses to state wrongdoing must grapple with."" -- Victor Tadros, Professor of Law, The University of Warwick" Author InformationAvia Pasternak is an Associate Professor in Political Theory and teaches political philosophy at the Department of Political Science at University College London. She earned her D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University and held visiting positions at Stanford University and Princeton University. She writes on collective responsibility and political obligations in democracies and in non-democratic states and on the ethics of violent protests. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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