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    It is not the case that Reciprocity obligations do not divide neatly state by state.

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    • 1.The law-abidingness of neighbors in Mexico is more crucial to physical security in Southern California than the law-abidingness of fellow citizens in Maine or Florida.
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    • 2.Treaties and peaceful relations among militarily armed states, produced by peaceable desires of people across all states, are immensely important to physical security in all potentially threatening nations.
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    • 3.Cross-border cooperative contributions to basic security are as significant as intra-state contributions.
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    • 1.Rawls's Law of Peoples acknowledges that the basic structure of global society generates duties that transcend any single domestic social contract.
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    • 2.If justice-generating cooperation extends beyond state borders, then reciprocity obligations tracking that cooperation cannot be bounded by state membership alone.
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    • 3.Global economic interdependence creates enforceable claims between distant strangers who never consented to a shared domestic scheme.
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    • 1.Pogge's institutional cosmopolitanism holds that shared coercive institutions—not shared citizenship—ground distributive obligations among persons.
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    • 2.The WTO, IMF, and global financial architecture impose binding constraints on non-members, constituting coercive cooperation that generates reciprocal obligations across states.
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