Defending political autonomy: A discussion of Charles Beitz

Review of International Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 381-388

  Miller, David ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/S0260210505006522     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. C. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), Part II, section 1.
2. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, p. 122.
3. J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), esp. section 82.
4. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, p. 98.
5. J. Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), esp. sections 7-8.
6. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, pp. 98-102.
7. Rawls, Theory of Justice, p. 457.
8. He refers particular to Michael Walzer's article, The Moral Standing of States: a Response to Four Critics', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 9 (1979-80), pp. 209-29.
9. C. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, revised edn. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), Afterword, section 2.
10. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, revised edn., p. 198.
11. I mention this because Beitz at one point cites 'the communist governments of the countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War' as an instance of a lack of fit between a community's traditions and its political institutions. But these governments were kept in place by the Soviet Union, by force of arms if necessary. No one sympathetic to the communitarian argument would apply it to such cases - on the contrary, the argument is intended as a critique of imperialism of this kind.
12. C. Beitz, 'Cosmopolitan Liberalism and the States System" in C. Brown (ed.), Political Restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives (London, Routledge, 1994), p. 131.
13. There may be some ambiguity about where the line between intrinsic and instrumental justifications of self-determination should be drawn. I am treating as instrumental those justifications which see the connection between self-determination and the value or values it promotes as empirical and contingent - the value or values in question could be promoted in other ways, but as things stand, self-determination for the group is the best way forward. In contrast, I am treating as intrinsic those justifications which see the connection as an internal and necessary one, so that self-determination is being valued for its contribution to a larger whole (for example, authentic cultural development) of which it forms an essential element.
14. I have looked more closely at this question in 'Secession and the Principle of Nationality', in J. Couture, K. Nielsen and M. Seymour (eds.), Rethinking Nationalism (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1998), reprinted in M. Moore (ed.), National Self-Determination and Secession (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) and in D. Miller, Citizenship and National Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).
15. I have looked more closely at this question in 'Secession and the Principle of Nationality', in J. Couture, K. Nielsen and M. Seymour (eds.), Rethinking Nationalism (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1998), reprinted in M. Moore (ed.), National Self-Determination and Secession (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) and in D. Miller, Citizenship and National Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).
16. I have looked more closely at this question in 'Secession and the Principle of Nationality', in J. Couture, K. Nielsen and M. Seymour (eds.), Rethinking Nationalism (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1998), reprinted in M. Moore (ed.), National Self-Determination and Secession (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) and in D. Miller, Citizenship and National Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).
17. See further my essay 'National Self-Determination and Global Justice', in Miller, Citizenship and National Identity.