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I have accumulated many debts over the years; the main ones are to Liza Schuster, who introduced me to the issue, to Matt Gibney, from whom I have learnt most (perhaps not enough), and to Joseph Carens and Rainer Bauböck, who have each critically supported my thinking about this topic. Others whose thinking and comments have helped me along the way include Alex Aleinikoff, Sarah Fine, David Miller, Kelly Oliver, Clara Sandelind, James Souter, Christine Straehle, Kerri Woods and Leah Zamore. Particular thanks are due to Chris Armstrong, Chris Bertram, Peter Niesen, Anne Phillips and Tracy Strong, for responses to the whole manuscript.

I was fortunate to have the political philosophy group at the University of Milan devote a workshop to the draft manuscript, and I am grateful to Corrado Fumagalli for organising it and to his colleagues for their critical insights. Special thanks are due to Gloria Zuccarelli and Laura Santi Amantini for detailed and helpful comments on the manuscript and to Valeria Ottonelli for raising an important point I had not adequately considered. I am also grateful to George Owers and Julia Davies at Polity, who have been exemplary throughout the process, and to two anonymous reviewers.

Outside academic life I owe a debt to two friends – Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Simon Nicholson – who read the manuscript of this book as fellow writers, with an ear to its accessibility to the lay reader. My wife, Caroline Wintersgill, has offered her always steadfast love and support (even while trying to finish her PhD); and our children, Miranda and Arthur, sustain me in more ways than they know. Because I admire her passionate concern for justice, I dedicate this book to Miranda.