PhD defended, survived, and officially done 🎓

huge congratulations!! 🎉

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this is perfect! thank you so much!

Thanks for sharing, Daniel! This is super helpful. I’m teaching a course on citizenship, statelessness, and migration next month and I’d love to get your thoughts. Would it be alright if I sent you my syllabus for comments or suggestions?

🎉Check out the special issue featuring my paper based on my dissertation! I’m deeply grateful to the editors @ascherz.bsky.social and @oisinsuttle.bsky.social and all the workshop participants!
Thanks to them, my first publication came with minimal emotional damage.😌

What makes international institutions legitimate to citizens of non-democratic states? There is limited research on international legitimacy from the perspective of ordinary citizens in non-democratic states. These citizens have restricted opportunities for political participation an...

6. Do, H. (2025). What makes international institutions legitimate to citizens of non-democratic states? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Legitimate international authority and institutional diversity While international institutions are a frequent and increasing focus of political challenge and critique, evaluating their normative legitimacy raises novel theoretical challenges. International in...

Exciting publication news!

I have been working for the past couple of years with co-editor @ascherz.bsky.social and awesome authors (details below) on a special issue on “Legitimate International Authority and Institutional Diversity”.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Excited to share that my essay on statelessness and Global Citizens’ Assembly is now published with @glocan.bsky.social

🏡 read it here:

I’m launching my essay on Global Citizens’ Assembly for Stateless and Unrecognized Individuals with @glocan.bsky.social

Join us on 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵, 𝟭𝟯:𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗘𝗧 to share ideas and help bring us closer to a world where everyone feels at home. 🏡

Register here: uni-bremen.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦋 What counts as democracy? A critical reflection on The Science of Democracy 2.0 The Science of Democracy 2.0 offers a bold, innovative rethinking of democracy by embracing diversity and challenging Western-centric models. Hong Do acknowledges its ambition, but argues it risks…

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.112
💭 A new phase in this series offers a rethinking of democracy by challenging Western-centric models. @hongdp.bsky.social acknowledges its ambition, but argues it risks celebrating democratic traditions without fully addressing embedded inequalities.
👉 buff.ly/jNhbas4

Cover of the most recent issue (2/2025) of the Journal of International Political Theory.

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2

Congratulations! Everything looks excellent! I managed to quote from one of the articles in my forthcoming book review :)

l-r Daniel Häuser, Ilaria Cozzaglio, Carmen Pavel, Bernd Ladwig, Regina Kreide, David Owen, Bill Scheuerman, Peter Niesen, Katrin Flikschuh, Oliver Eberl, Svenja Ahlhaus, Cord Schmelzle. Suzanne Bloks', Dominik Austrup's backs.

l-r, t-b David Owen, Jakob Huber. Dominik Austrup, Christian Carl, Oliver Eberl, Cord Schmelzle, Dorothea Gädeke, Bernd Ladwig. Palle Bech-Pedersen, Suzanne Bloks, Markus Patberg, Svenja Ahlhaus, Bill Scheuerman, Lore-Marie Junghans, Daniel Häuser. Peter Niesen, Carmen Pavel, Regina Kreide, Claudia Landwehr, Katrin Flikschuh, Ilaria Cozzaglio, Matthew Braham.

From a workshop in May 2024 that has now resulted in a special issue on *Demokratiewissenschaft* in the journals.sagepub.com/home/ipt, OnlineFirst. Many thanks to @mpatberg.bsky.social , @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social and Oliver Eberl for organizing and editing, @proftonylang.bsky.social for hosting, ..

Hong Do & Cristina Astier insist that citizens with a perceived immigration background have a claim against being treated as nonmembers of society, which is grounded in the public and equal advancement of the fundamental interest in ‘being at home’." Read #openaccess here: doi.org/10.1515/mopp...

New paper w/ @chrishillion.bsky.social & @tommasopavone.bsky.social
What does it take not just to defend democracy—but to rebuild it?
Developing the concepts of democratic frontsliding and restorative disobedience we analyze how liberal democracy can be restored: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

‘Not a Guest in My Country’: Immigration Background, Social Hierarchies, and the Fundamental Interest in ‘Being at Home’ The prevailing belief, both within the immigration literature and in current political debate, is that the cornerstone of resolving immigration issues is the attainment of citizenship. In contrast, th...

Our article is out! We argue that formal citizenship isn’t enough when citizens with a perceived immigration background are still treated as guests in their own home.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1515/mopp...

6th POLEMO Symposium The Political, Legal, and Moral Philosophy Research Group (POLEMO) at Central European University cordially invites abstract submissions for its annual conference, the 6th POLEMO Symposium, which will...

Come to Vienna in May, for the 6th yearly POLEMO symposium in political philosophy! Applications now open (for graduate students and early career people). Keynotes from Serena Olsaretti and Andrew Mason - not bad, huh?
sites.google.com/view/polemos...
And please spread the word.

Can Stability Help Us Determine to Whom Justifiability is Owed?

More POLEMO@CEU news - all are welcome (onsite or online):
events.ceu.edu/2024-12-05/c...