%0 Journal Article
%T The cosmopolitan strikes back: a critical discussion of Miller on nationality and global equality
%A Nils Holtug
%J Ethics & Global Politics
%D 2011
%I Co-Action Publishing
%R 10.3402/egp.v4i3.5873
%X According to David Miller, we have stronger obligations towards our co-nationals than we have towards non-nationals. While a principle of equality governs our obligations of justice within the nation-state, our obligations towards non-nationals are governed by a weaker principle of sufficiency. In this paper, I critically assess Miller's objection to a traditional argument for global egalitarianism, according to which nationalist and other deviations from equality rely on factors that are arbitrary from a moral point of view. Then I critically discuss Miller's claim that there is no culturally neutral currency with respect to which we may reasonably claim that people should be equally well off on a global scale. Furthermore, I critically discuss Miller's claim that cosmopolitanism undermines national responsibility. And finally, I turn to Miller's own sufficientarian account of global justice and argue that it exhibits too little concern for the plight of the globally worse off.
%K equality
%K cosmopolitanism
%K David Miller
%K nationalism
%U http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/5873/11222