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It is not the case that Pogge's institutional cosmopolitanism holds that shared coercive institutions—not shared citizenship—ground distributive obligations among persons.
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Not all coercive institutions generate equal obligations; distinguishing which ones do requires prior moral principles beyond institutional participation.
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Citizens depend on state institutions for basic rights and goods in ways non-citizens don't, making citizenship a deeper ground for obligation than mere coercion.
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The theory struggles to specify which global institutions trigger obligations and at what threshold, making practical application indeterminate.
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Coercive institutions impose binding rules that constrain freedom, creating special moral responsibility toward those affected by those rules.
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Citizenship is contingent and exclusionary, while institutional participation is the actual ground of interdependence and mutual obligation.
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Global institutions (trade regimes, financial systems, military alliances) coerce billions, yet citizenship-based views deny them distributive claims.
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