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• Title: Categorizing Groups? Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity (Symposium: WALZER AND THE MORAL STANDING OF States) (Critical Essay)
• Author : Ethics & International Affairs
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 333 KB

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Since 1989 we have witnessed a proliferation of efforts to develop international norms of the rights of ethnocultural minorities, such as the UN's 1992 Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, the Council of Europe's 1995 Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, and the Organization of American States' 1997 draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (1) This activity at the level of international law is reflected in a comparable explosion of interest in minority rights among normative political theorists. In the same twenty-year period we have seen a proliferation of attempts at formulating a normative theory of minority rights and examining how minority rights relate to broader political values (such as freedom, equality, democracy, and citizenship) and broader normative frameworks (such as liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism). Key works here include those by Charles Taylor, Jim Tully, Iris Young, Jeff Spinner-Halev, Bhikhu Parekh, Yael Tamir, Joseph Carens, Susan Okin, and Anne Phillips--a rich literature that has informed and inspired my own work in the field. (2) In this context, Michael Walzer's work occupies an important but somewhat anomalous role. On the one hand, he was arguably the first political theorist, at least in the postwar era, to take seriously the issue of minority rights. He wrote two groundbreaking articles in 1982 and 1983--"Pluralism in Political Perspective" and "States and Minorities"--which are remarkable for their prescience. They lay out virtually all of the relevant normative and theoretical issues in a clear and concise way, several years before minority rights became a hot topic in academia or, indeed, in policy circles. And he has continued to develop these ideas over time, including in his important 1997 book, On Toleration, which refines and deepens his account of the basic framework within which to theorize state-minority relations--a framework initially developed in his 1983 article. The resulting corpus of work is among the most intellectually sophisticated available, combining (as does all his work) profound moral reflections with an impressive historical and geographical reach.

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