Next week we’ll be hosting a discussion of our own Peter Spiro’s Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization (Oxford University Press). As readers of this blog know, Peter has many wonderful insights into the way that citizenship and national identity interact in a globalizing environment. (His latest post on Pamela Anderson is just the latest lighthearted example of his much larger project).

The book uses citizenship practice as a lens on national identity, with discussions of birthright citizenship, naturalization, and plural citizenship, as well as of citizenship’s place in defining rights and obligations, all in Peter’s trademark accessible style. We are very fortunate to have four distinguished guest commentators for the event: Alex Aleinikoff, John Fonte, Cristina Rodriguez, and Jonathan Weinberg. Peter will lead off and respond to comments. We’ll look forward to what is sure to be a lively and fascinating discussion!

Related Posts

• May 15, 2008 -- Wrap-Up Post: W(h)ither America?
• May 15, 2008 -- Who Needs Citizenship?
• May 15, 2008 -- My last few words
• May 15, 2008 -- Patriotic Assimilation
• May 15, 2008 -- Tightening the Citizenship Circle, Legally: Not Going to Happen
• May 15, 2008 -- Final thoughts on cosmopolitanism
• May 15, 2008 -- Channeling Circular Migration
• May 14, 2008 -- Immigrants and Assimilation
• May 14, 2008 -- Nation-States and Cosmopolitans … an Ellipsis from Ignatieff
• May 14, 2008 -- The Thinness of American Citizenship: Or, What’s Wrong with Happenstance Americans and Diasporic Communities?
• May 14, 2008 -- Why go beyond the Constitution?
• May 14, 2008 -- European Union is post-democratic
• May 14, 2008 -- Naturalization numbers and beyond
• May 14, 2008 -- The Thinness of American Citizenship: Virtue or Failing? Or Both?
• May 14, 2008 -- Translating Citizenship Outside the State
• May 14, 2008 -- Resisting Erosion
• May 14, 2008 -- Citizenship and Beyond
• May 13, 2008 -- Naturalization Numbers Are Going Up. How Can Citizenship Be Going Down?
• May 13, 2008 -- Is Dual Citizenship Dilutive of Identity?
• May 13, 2008 -- Is Democracy Possible Beyond the State?
• May 13, 2008 -- Response to Weinberg: Some Things Really Are New
• May 13, 2008 -- The Normativity of Political Transnationalism
• May 13, 2008 -- Erosion Does Not Mean Decline
• May 13, 2008 -- The Salience of Territorial Location: Everything Old is New Again
• May 12, 2008 -- Citizenship: Down But Not Out
• May 12, 2008 -- Book Roundtable: American Identity in the Face of Globalization