Global Citizenship and Empire

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ID4525075
AuthorsBarbara Arneil (0000-0003-0426-1622, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume11
Issue3
Pages301-328
Publication date2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621020701381840
OpenAlexW2118524559
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited48

Global citizenship is a concept that has been both propounded and critiqued on a number of grounds in recent scholarship, but little attention has been paid to what it might mean in an age of empire. Beginning with an analysis of American empire, the author argues that there has been an important shift in the meaning of imperial rule from what was initially a “realpolitik” version of empire in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to what has become a more “liberal” form of imperial power since late 2003. Whereas the former sought national security in a seemingly anarchical and hostile world, the latter has sought to spread a particular kind of globalized citizenship to the world, particularly in the Middle East. The author argues that the ideological grounding for such an imperial “civilizing mission” needs to be challenged through an alternative theorization of global citizenship. Thus, the second half of the article suggests a new theory of global citizenship rooted in two basic principles: social rights (in order to address the least well off) and shared fate (in order to draw the links between the north/south and east/west). Taken together, they provide a starting point for an alternative theory of global citizenship that speaks not simply against empire but to it

Citizenship · Empire · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Realpolitik · Scholarship · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty

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