Iris Marion Young is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Her books include Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton University Press, 1990), Throwing Like a Girl, and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (Indiana University Press, 1990) and Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2000).

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In May 2003, leading European philosophers challenged Europe to formulate a coherent foreign policy in its own and the world’s interest. Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas and colleagues are well-intentioned but trapped in Eurocentrism, argues this American political philosopher. Europe needs not globalism but a provincialism that will enable a dialogue of equals with the rest of the world.