TY - JOUR
T1 - Citizenship as strict liability
T2 - a review of Avia Pasternak’s responsible citizens, Irresponsible States
AU - Francis, Bennet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - States commit wrongs that demand redress. In her recent book, Avia Pasternak considers the circumstances under which it is legitimate to impose the cost of redress upon the state’s citizens at large. Her answer is that it is legitimate to impose reparative burdens on citizens only when they participate in their state intentionally, specifically, when they intend to play their part in maintaining state institutions. The book thus has revisionary implications for current international legal practice, given reparative burdens are currently imposed upon states no matter their internal relations. The book’s persuasive argument will be of interest not only to scholars of normative political theory and social ontology, but also international legal theorists. That said, its core claim that citizen participation must be ‘genuine’ would benefit from further specification through future scholarship.
AB - States commit wrongs that demand redress. In her recent book, Avia Pasternak considers the circumstances under which it is legitimate to impose the cost of redress upon the state’s citizens at large. Her answer is that it is legitimate to impose reparative burdens on citizens only when they participate in their state intentionally, specifically, when they intend to play their part in maintaining state institutions. The book thus has revisionary implications for current international legal practice, given reparative burdens are currently imposed upon states no matter their internal relations. The book’s persuasive argument will be of interest not only to scholars of normative political theory and social ontology, but also international legal theorists. That said, its core claim that citizen participation must be ‘genuine’ would benefit from further specification through future scholarship.
KW - Avia Pasternak
KW - Citizen responsibility
KW - Complicity
KW - Group agency
KW - Reactive attitudes
KW - State wrongdoing
KW - Strict liability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139144225&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/16544951.2022.2128581
DO - 10.1080/16544951.2022.2128581
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139144225
VL - 15
SP - 107
EP - 112
JO - Ethics and Global Politics
JF - Ethics and Global Politics
SN - 1654-4951
IS - 4
ER -