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The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

Peter H. Koehn
Peter H. Koehn
Affiliation:
University of Montana
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The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees. By Matthew J. Gibney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 298p. $70.00 cloth, $27.99 paper.

This book is an important contribution at the interface of contemporary political theory and international relations. Political asylum is a defining issue of our time because of the scope and impact of the refugee crisis and its roots in deepening global inequities. Matthew Gibney addresses the conflict between the ethical and political claims of refugees and the claims of citizens that are embodied in asylum issues. In the process, he demonstrates the intellectual and policy value of treatments that interactively engage normative political theory and international relations.

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BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 419 - 421
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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