This book addresses questions dealing with national identity and international obligations. It focuses on the concerns related to the moral legitimacy of the claims of nationality and the issues of whether moral obligations are invariably transnational or if there are obligations to compatriots.

Introduction -- National Identity and National Self-Determination -- What Place for Nationalism in the Modern World? -- What Is Nationality, and Is There a Moral Right to National Self-Determination? -- The Skeleton in the Cupboard: Nationhood, Patriotism and Limited Loyalties -- Reconstructing the Landscape of Imagination -- National Obligations: Political, Cultural or Societal? -- Individuals, Nations and Obligations -- Territorial Justice -- Environmental Rights and National Sovereignty -- Cultural Pluralism, Universal Principles and International Relations Theory -- International Human Rights: Philosophical or Political?