caa a22 4500 388079762 CHVBK 20180307125210.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585768 doi S0003055400216699 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585768 Gibney Matthew J. University of Oxford Liberal Democratic States and Responsibilities to Refugees [Elektronische Daten] [Matthew J. Gibney] In this article I employ the resources of political theory to examine and provide an answer to the question of how liberal democracies should respond to the claims of refugees to enter and reside in their territory. I begin by considering questions of value: I argue that a convincing ethical ideal must strive to balance the competing claims of citizens and refugees. Moving to issues of agency, I show that any standard must also accommodate itself to the difficulties of predicting the consequences of entrance, the responsibilities states currently accept, and the way that politics constrains the efforts of states to assist refugees. I conclude by proposing the principle of humanitarianism as a way of reconciling the demands of value with those of agency. I argue that adherence to this principle would improve the refugee policies of liberal democratic states. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 169-181 0003-0554 93:1<169 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585768 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585768 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gibney Matthew J. University of Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 169-181 0003-0554 93:1<169 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge