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Introduction: The Substantive Unity of Michael Walzer's Pluralism / Naomi Sussmann 1. - Part 1: The Moral Standing of States . - 1. Toleration, Self-Determination and the State / David Miller 23. - 2. Taking Rights Seriously and the Human Rights Discourse / Ruth Gavison 40. - 3. The Moral Standing of States Revisited / Charles Beitz 61. - 4. On Mill, Walzer and Non-Intervention / Michael Doyle 83. - Response / Michael Walzer 104. - Part 2: State and Culture . - 5. What it Means to be a Pluralist / Jacob Levy 111. - 6. Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity / Will Kymlicka 129. - 7. Between Sacred and Secular: Michael Walzer's Story of Exodus / Bonnie Honig 146. - Response / Michael Walzer 167. - Part 3: Politics and the Spheres of Justice . - 8. Justice beyond Fairness / Michael Sandel 175. - 9. Plural Equality / Thomas Scanlon 183. - 10. Walzer's Radicalism / George Kateb 196. - Response / Michael Walzer 222. - Part 4: Just War Theory . - 11. Individual Responsibility and the Law of Jus ad Bellum / Jeff McMahan 233. - 12. Cosmopolitanism and the Laws of War / Yitzhak Benbaji 256. - 13. Risk Taking and Force Protection / David Luban 277. - 14. The Moral Psychic Reality of War / Nancy Sherman 302. - Response / Michael Walzer 328

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