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The Cultural Defense of Nations - A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights (Hardcover)
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The Cultural Defense of Nations - A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Constitutional Theory
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The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely,
thought-provoking thesis on some of the most pressing issues of our
time-global immigration, majority groups, and national identity.
Never in human history has so much attention been paid to human
movement. Global migration yields demographic shifts of historical
significance, profoundly shaking up world politics-as has been seen
in the refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the 2016 U.S.
election. The Cultural Defense of Nations addresses one of the
greatest challenges facing liberalism today: is a liberal state
justified in restricting immigration and access to citizenship in
order to protect its majority culture? Liberal theorists and human
rights advocates recognize the rights of minorities to maintain
their unique cultural identity, but assume that majorities have
neither a need for similar rights nor a moral ground for defending
them. The majority culture, so the argument goes, "can take care of
itself." However, with more than 250 million immigrants worldwide,
majority groups increasingly seek to protect what they consider to
be their national identity. In recent years, liberal democracies
have introduced proactive immigration and citizenship policies that
are designed to defend the majority culture. This book shifts the
focus from the prevailing discussion of cultural minority rights
and, for the first time, addreses the cultural rights of
majorities. It proposes a new approach by which liberal democracies
can welcome immigrants without fundamentally changing their
cultural heritage, forsaking their liberal traditions, or slipping
into extreme nationalism. Disregarding the topic of cultural
majority rights is not only theoretically wrong, but also
politically unwise. With forms of "majority nationalism" rising and
the growing popularity of extreme right-wing parties in the West,
time has come to liberally address the new challenge.
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