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EPT 6_4 6/29/07 12:30 PM Page 433articleResponse EJPTEuropean JournalSaskia Sassen Columbia University, USA of Political Theory© SAGE Publications Ltd,Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singaporeissn 1474-8851, 6(4) 433–446[DOI: 10.1177/1474885107080649]abstract: The response aims at detecting additional angles in Benhabib’sproblematic and adding some variables to its potential resolution. I examine two suchvariables. One concerns the rights-bearing subject. Benhabib addresses the tensionbetween individual universal rights and sovereign self-determination by positing amodified Kantian ‘cosmopolitan federalism’. While I can support this thesis, I see awhole other reality in the making that offers additional kinds of resolutions as well as arepositioning of cosmopolitan federalism in a different field of forces. Critical here isthe incipient denationalizing of citizenship which is taking place inside the nation state,and hence is not predicated on post-national and transnational conditions forcitizenship. Such resolutions are precluded in Benhabib’s text because of the closureshe projects onto the nation state. The second variable I discuss addresses preciselythis question of the state today – that is to say, in a context of the ascendance of aninternational human rights regime and of globalization. Benhabib sees the nationaland the global as mutually exclusive. In my own research I see a process wherebyglobal logics get partly constituted inside ...

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