Publications from RGCS affiliates

Arash Abizadeh

Hobbes on the Causes of War: A Disagreement Theory, American Political Science Review 105 (02):298-315.

“Closed Borders, Human Rights, and Democratic Legitimation.” In Driven From Home: Human Rights and the New Realities of Forced Migration. Ed. David Hollenbach. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010.

“Citizenship, Immigration, and Boundaries.” In Ethics and World Politics. Ed. D. S. A. Bell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Thomas Hobbes et le droit naturel.” In Droit naturel, relancer l’histoire? Ed. Xavier Dijon. Brussels : Bruylant, 2008.

"Is There a Genuine Tension between Cosmopolitan Egalitarianism and Special Responsibilities?" Philosophical Studies 138.3 (2008): 348-365. (Co-authored.)

"Democratic Theory and Border Coercion: No Right to Unilaterally Control Your Own Borders." Political Theory 36.1 (2008): 37-65.

"Cooperation, Pervasive Impact, and Coercion: On the Scope (not Site) of Distributive Justice." Philosophy & Public Affairs 35.4 (2007): 318-358.

“On the Philosophy/Rhetoric Binaries, or, Is Habermasian Discourse Motivationally Impotent?” Philosophy & Social Criticism 33.4 (2007): 445-472.

"Liberal Egalitarian Arguments for Closed Borders: Some Preliminary Critical Reflections." Ethics & Economics 4.1 (2006).

“Was Fichte an Ethnic Nationalist? On Cultural Nationalism and its Double.” History of Political Thought 26.2 (2005): 334-359.

“In Defence of the Universalization Principle in Discourse Ethics.” The Philosophical Forum 36.2 (2005): 193-211.

“Does Collective Identity Presuppose an Other? On the Alleged Incoherence of Global Solidarity.” American Political Science Review 99.1 (2005): 45-60.

“Historical Truth, National Myths, and Liberal Democracy: On the Coherence of Liberal Nationalism.” The Journal of Political Philosophy 12.3 (2004): 291-313.

“Liberal Nationalist versus Postnational Social Integration: On the Nation's Ethno-Cultural Particularity and Concreteness’.” Nations and Nationalism 10.3 (2004): 231-250.

“The Passions of the Wise: Phronêsis, Rhetoric and Aristotle’s Passionate Practical Deliberation.” The Review of Metaphysics 56.2 (2002): 267-296.

“Does Liberal Democracy Presuppose a Cultural Nation? Four Arguments.” American Political Science Review 96.3 (2002): 495-509.

Jacob T. Levy

What It Means To Be A Pluralist,” in Yitzakh Benjabi and Naomi Sussman, eds., Reading Walzer, forthcoming, Routledge.

“’States of the Same Nature’: Bounded Variation in Subfederal Constitutionalism,” in James A. Gardner and Jim Rossi, eds., Dual Enforcement of Constitutional Norms: New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law, forthcoming, Oxford University Press.

“Multicultural Manners,” in Michel Seymour, ed., The Plural States of Recognition, Palgrave, 2010.

"Montesquieu's Constitutional Legacies," in Rebecca Kingston, ed., Modernity in Question: Montesquieu and His Legacy, SUNY Press, 2009

“Not so Novus an Ordo: Constitutions Without Social Contracts,” 37(2) Political Theory 191-217, 2009

“National and statist responsibility,” 11(4) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 485-99, 2008

“Three Perversities of Indian Law,” 12(2) Texas Review of Law and Politics 329-68, 2008

“Self-determination, non-domination, and federalism,” 23(3) Hypatia, 60-78, 2008

"Federalism, Liberalism, and the Separation of Loyalties," 101(3) American Political Science Review 459-77, 2007

"Federalism and the Old and New Liberalisms," 24(1) Social Philosophy and Policy 306-26, 2007

"Contextualism, Constitutionalism, and Modus Vivendi Approaches," in Anthony Laden and David Owen, eds., Multiculturalism and Political Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2007

The Multiculturalism of Fear. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Catherine Lu

“The Politics of Legal Accountability and Genocide Prevention,” in The Prevention of Genocide, René Provost and Payam Akhavan eds., forthcoming 2010.

“Tragedies and International Relations,” in Tragedy in International Relations, Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow eds. (UK: Palgrave Macmillan), 2010.

¨Political Friendship Among Peoples,” Journal of International Political Theory 5, 1 (Spring 2009) 41-58.

“Shame, Guilt and Reconciliation after War,” The European Journal of Social Theory 11, 3 (2008) 367-38.

“Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Ambition and Political Constraints,” International Journal 62, 4 (Autumn 2007) 934-943.

“Justice and Reparations in World Politics,” in Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, eds. Rahul Kumar and Jon Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 193-212.

Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

“The International Criminal Court as an Institution of Moral Regeneration: Problems and Prospects,” in Bringing Power to Justice, eds. Joanna Harrington, Michael Milde and Richard Vernon (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 191-209.

Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli

“The problem of a perpetual constitution,” in Axel Gosseries and Lukas Meyer, eds., Theories of Intergenerational Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010

Will Roberts

“Feuerbach and the Left and Right Hegelians.” In The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume Two: The Revolutionary Responses to the Existing Order (1840-1900), edited by Daniel W. Conway, general editor Alan D. Schrift. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen, 17-34. Forthcoming 2010.

“The Reconstitution of Marxism’s Production Paradigm: The Cases of Benjamin, Althusser, and Marx,” forthcoming in Philosophical Forum 41:4 (Winter 2010).

“Abstraction and Productivity: Structures of Intentionality and Action in Marx’s Capital.” In Marx and Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor. Harmondsworth, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, 188-203.

“The Origin of Political Economy and the Descent of Marx.” In Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice. Edited by Warren S. Goldstein. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2006, 31-58.

“Marx in Hell: The Critique of Political Economy as Katabasis.” Journal of Critical Sociology 31:2 (Spring 2005): 37-53.

“Marx Contra the Democrats: The Force of The Eighteenth Brumaire.” Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics 16:1 (May 2003): 51-64.

Filippo Sabetti

Civilization and Self-Government: The Political Thought of Carlo Cattaneo. Lexington Books (2010)

Filippo Sabetti, Barbara Allen and Mark Sproule-Jones, eds., The Practice of Constitutional Development: Vincent Ostrom’s Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lexington Books (2009).

Mark Sproule-Jones, Barbara Allen and Filippo Sabetti, eds., The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders. Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lexington Books (2008)

“Democracy and Civic Culture.” Pp.340-62. In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, ed.by C. Boix and S. Stokes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Filippo Sabetti, ed. (2007). Libertà e Liberali in Europa e in America [Liberty and Liberalism in Europe and America]. Milan: Edizioni Guerini.

Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, eds. (2006). Civilization and Democracy: The Salvemini Anthology of Cattaneo’s Writings. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

“Local Roots of Constitutionalism.” Perspectives on Political Science 33 (no. 2, Spring 2004): 70-78.

Alla Ricerca del Buon Governo in Italia. Updated version of The Search for Good Government. Manduria-Bari-Rome: Piero Lacaita Editore (2004).

Christa Scholtz

"The Influence of Judicial Uncertainty on Executive Support for Negotiation in Canadian Land Claims Policy," Canadian Journal of Political Science 42:417-442, 2009

Negotiating Claims: The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. (New York: Routledge, 2006)

Hasana Sharp

“The Impersonal is Political: Spinoza and a Feminist Politics of Imperceptibility,” Hypatia 24.4 (October-December 2009): 91-112.

“Love and Possession: Towards a Political Economy of Ethics 5,” North American Spinoza Society Monograph 14 (2009): 1-19.

“The Force of Ideas in Spinoza,” Political Theory 35.6 (December 2007): 732-755.

“Melancholy, Anxious, and Ek-static Selves: Feminism between Eros and Thanatos,” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 11.2 (Fall 2007): 313-331.

“Love and Possession: Towards a Political Economy of Ethics V,” North American Spinoza Society Monograph 15, forthcoming.

“Why Spinoza Today? Or, ‘A Strategy of Anti-Fear’”, Rethinking Marxism, 17.4 (October 2005): 591-608.

“Feeling Justice: The Reorientation of Possessive Desire in Spinoza,” International Studies in Philosophy, 37.2 (Spring 2005).

Christina Tarnopolsky

Prudes, Perverts and Tyrants: Plato’s Gorgias and the Politics of Shame. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010

“The Pedagogies of Shame.” Cabinet: A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture. No. 31, Fall 2008.

“Plato on Shame and Parrhesia in Democratic Athens.” In Bringing the Passions Back In: The Emotions in Political Philosophy, Ed. Rebecca Kingston and Leonard Ferry, University of British Columbia Press, 2008.

“The Bipolar Longings of Thumos: A Feminist Rereading of Plato’s Republic.” Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 11 no. 2, Fall 2007.

“Platonic Reflections on the Aesthetic Dimensions of Deliberative Democracy.” Political Theory, 35 no. 3, Spring (June) 2007: 288-312.

“Prudes, Perverts and Tyrants: Plato and the Contemporary Politics of Shame and Civility.” Political Theory, Summer 32 no. 4, (August) 2004: 468-494.

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