Responsible citizens, irresponsible states : should citizens pay for their State's wrongdoings? /

Responsible citizens, irresponsible states : should citizens pay for their State's wrongdoings? /

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Author / Creator:Pasternak, Avia, 1975- author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description:1 online resource (248 pages).
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:
Reparations for historical injustices -- Moral and ethical aspects.
War reparations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13499620
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ISBN:9780197541067 (ebook) : No price
Notes:Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 27, 2021).
Summary:States pay compensation for their unjust wars, as did Iraq in the aftermath of its invasion of Kuwait. States pay reparations for their historical wrongdoings, as did Chile to the victims of the Pinochet Regime, or Germany to Israel and other countries because of the Holocaust. Some argue that they should pay punitive damages for their international crimes as well. But state responsibility has a troubling feature: states are corporate agents, comprising flesh and blood citizens. This book develops a fresh justification for citizens' duties to share the burden of their state's wrongdoings. This justification revolves around citizens' participation in their state: drawing on recent debates in the philosophy of collective action, Avia Pasternak shows that citizens are acting together in their state and that their state policies are the product of this collective action.
Target Audience:Specialized.
Other form:Print version : 9780197541036

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