On Nationality (Oxford Political Theory)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 28, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780198293569
First sentence: The claims of nationality have come to dominate politics in the last decade of the twentieth century.
Description: In this book David Miller defends the principle of nationality. He argues that national identities are valid sources of personal identity; that we are justified in recognizing special obligations to our co-nationals; that nations have good grounds for wanting to be politically self-determining; but that recognizing the claims of nationality does not entail suppressing other sources of personal identity, such as ethnicity.

Finally, he considers the claim that national identities are dissolving in the late twentieth century.