Felix Bender
@felixbender.bsky.social
Ukraine is in need of manpower in its war with Russia, but does it have the right to conscript its citizens? What are the philosophical arguments for it and do they hold? I argue that there is no obligation to die for the state: felixbender724201.substack.com/p/the-obliga...
The Obligation to Die: Ukraine and whether Military Conscription can be Defended
Ukraine is in desperate need of manpower in its war with Russia, but does it have the right to conscript its citizens? What are the philosophical arguments for conscription and do they hold? This arti...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ukraine is in need of manpower in its war with Russia, but does it have the right to conscript its citizens? What are the philosophical arguments for it and do they hold? I argue that there is no obligation to die for the state: felixbender724201.substack.com/p/the-obliga...
What's the problem with small boats arriving in the UK? Loads of articles consider legal or political arguments, but few address the philosophical ones underpining this debate. Do any of them hold? Find out here: open.substack.com/pub/felixben...
What's the issue with small boats arriving in the UK? Philosophical arguments
Every other day, a few small boats carrying asylum seekers arrive at the shores of the UK.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
What's the problem with small boats arriving in the UK? Loads of articles consider legal or political arguments, but few address the philosophical ones underpining this debate. Do any of them hold? Find out here: open.substack.com/pub/felixben...
I've written my first substack post on the value of university education. If you're interested, read it here. I'm new to substack, so please have mercy:
felixbender724201.substack.com/p/why-study
felixbender724201.substack.com/p/why-study
Why study?
The value of a university education
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October 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I've written my first substack post on the value of university education. If you're interested, read it here. I'm new to substack, so please have mercy:
felixbender724201.substack.com/p/why-study
felixbender724201.substack.com/p/why-study
Should rejected asylum seekers have a right to stay? Read the discussion between Leila Hadj Abdou, Eszter Kollar and myself to find out. Here is the original piece: comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.....
Here is my response:
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Here is my response:
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migrationpolicycentre.eu
September 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Should rejected asylum seekers have a right to stay? Read the discussion between Leila Hadj Abdou, Eszter Kollar and myself to find out. Here is the original piece: comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.....
Here is my response:
migrationpolicycentre.eu/wp-content/u...
Here is my response:
migrationpolicycentre.eu/wp-content/u...
My paper on climate change refugees now has now appeared in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. You may read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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September 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
My paper on climate change refugees now has now appeared in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. You may read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs -
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
Very excited for this conference on Refuge and Displacement at the University of Oxford later this month and only slightly intimidated on being the only other person in a panel with David Miller.
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
Refuge and displacement
Forced displacement and refugee protection are among the most pressing moral and political challenges of our time. This workshop aims to explore how normative and empirical approaches can meaningfully...
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Very excited for this conference on Refuge and Displacement at the University of Oxford later this month and only slightly intimidated on being the only other person in a panel with David Miller.
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
If anyone feels like attending, here is a link: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...
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New publication!🚨Here, we critically examine the governance of humanitarian protection, showing how both gender-blind and gender-sensitive regimes often reinforce—rather than reduce—the vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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May 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New publication!🚨Here, we critically examine the governance of humanitarian protection, showing how both gender-blind and gender-sensitive regimes often reinforce—rather than reduce—the vulnerabilities faced by forcibly displaced women. academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
Eilidh Beaton, Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem - PhilPapers
Political philosophy has long been criticised for its state-centricity. A recent version of this objection asserts that the discipline perpetuates a problematic methodological nationalism. Critics arg...
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April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
Today marks something of a milestone for me. 100 citations! What an achievement (though undoubtedly partially through self-citation).
March 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Today marks something of a milestone for me. 100 citations! What an achievement (though undoubtedly partially through self-citation).
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Rainer Bauböck Essay Award. Go for it!
🌍 Calling all early-career #Citizenship researchers! ✍️✨
Submit your entry for the 2025 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The❓How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies? 🌐💡
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
📝 3,000 words
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2025
Full details ➡️ t.ly/cbRd_
Submit your entry for the 2025 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The❓How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies? 🌐💡
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
📝 3,000 words
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2025
Full details ➡️ t.ly/cbRd_
Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship: Applications Open - Globalcit
The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a global research network committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world, is soliciting sub...
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December 30, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Rainer Bauböck Essay Award. Go for it!
Another utter externalisation failure www.politico.eu/article/gior...
Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns
The much-touted solution to Europe’s migration crisis houses only Italian police — who have taken to adopting stray dogs and sunbathing.
www.politico.eu
January 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Another utter externalisation failure www.politico.eu/article/gior...
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VOLUME 22 ISSUE 4 IS NOW OUT!!
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January 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
VOLUME 22 ISSUE 4 IS NOW OUT!!
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Talk about a good end to the year: My paper "Morality in the Refugee Regime?" has been published today in Perspectives on Politics' last issue of the year. Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees - Volume 22 Issue 4
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December 31, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Talk about a good end to the year: My paper "Morality in the Refugee Regime?" has been published today in Perspectives on Politics' last issue of the year. Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Künftig also Staatsbürgerschaft "auf Probe" - Menschen, die dt. Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten, müssen noch einmal 10 Jahre lang Angst haben, dass ihnen diese wieder entzogen wird.
Was ist das bitte anderes als ein Instrument zur Unterordnung migrantisierter Menschen?!
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Was ist das bitte anderes als ein Instrument zur Unterordnung migrantisierter Menschen?!
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Einbürgerung: Ampel will schriftliches Bekenntnis zu Deutschlands Verantwortung für NS-Unrecht ver...
Die Gespräche in der Ampelkoalition zur Reform des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts waren vor einer Woche noch gescheitert. Jetzt gibt es eine Lösung – auch beim Thema Antisemitismus.
www.spiegel.de
December 22, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Künftig also Staatsbürgerschaft "auf Probe" - Menschen, die dt. Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten, müssen noch einmal 10 Jahre lang Angst haben, dass ihnen diese wieder entzogen wird.
Was ist das bitte anderes als ein Instrument zur Unterordnung migrantisierter Menschen?!
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Was ist das bitte anderes als ein Instrument zur Unterordnung migrantisierter Menschen?!
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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JOB in our department!
Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance
Tenure track, University of Amsterdam
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...
Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance
Tenure track, University of Amsterdam
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...
December 21, 2023 at 12:52 PM
JOB in our department!
Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance
Tenure track, University of Amsterdam
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...
Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance
Tenure track, University of Amsterdam
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...
Does anyone know of a good (!) AI detection software? I tried a few and get wildly different results (results range from 0% AI written, to over 90% for the same text). Which detection software / website do you use, or are they all useless?
December 21, 2023 at 1:09 PM
Does anyone know of a good (!) AI detection software? I tried a few and get wildly different results (results range from 0% AI written, to over 90% for the same text). Which detection software / website do you use, or are they all useless?
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I cannot stress enough how big this decision is. Al Kateb v Godwin allowed the Australian government to imprison people indefinitely even where they had committed no crime.
November 8, 2023 at 6:40 AM
I cannot stress enough how big this decision is. Al Kateb v Godwin allowed the Australian government to imprison people indefinitely even where they had committed no crime.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of Niklas Luhmann's death. The "Welt" published five short pieces on a remarkable life and career (if you read German): www.welt.de/kultur/artic...
November 6, 2023 at 2:22 PM
Today marks the 25th anniversary of Niklas Luhmann's death. The "Welt" published five short pieces on a remarkable life and career (if you read German): www.welt.de/kultur/artic...
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Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board?
Me: I am a Dr
Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa
Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701
Me: I am a Dr
Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa
Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701
October 30, 2023 at 7:08 PM
Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board?
Me: I am a Dr
Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa
Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701
Me: I am a Dr
Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa
Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701
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Two political theory jobs in Melbourne Australia, one junior (lecturer) equivalent to asst prof and one senior (associate) equivalent to associate/full prof. Polisky PolTheory
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Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Social and Political Sciences (Multiple Positions) : The Univ...
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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November 1, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Two political theory jobs in Melbourne Australia, one junior (lecturer) equivalent to asst prof and one senior (associate) equivalent to associate/full prof. Polisky PolTheory
t.co/vufOxeZYOL
t.co/vufOxeZYOL
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Two weeks left to submit your proposal for the Migration Politics Residential Fellowship!
If you have a great idea for a research paper, submit your proposal - and come spend a week with us in Amsterdam or Glasgow to turn that great idea into a great paper.
migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pap...
If you have a great idea for a research paper, submit your proposal - and come spend a week with us in Amsterdam or Glasgow to turn that great idea into a great paper.
migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pap...
Call for papers: 2024 author fellowship in residence
The editorial team of the journal Migration Politics warmly welcome paper proposals for our authors’ fellowship in residence programme. We are seeking submissions from scholars conducting innovative...
migrationpolitics.org
October 31, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Two weeks left to submit your proposal for the Migration Politics Residential Fellowship!
If you have a great idea for a research paper, submit your proposal - and come spend a week with us in Amsterdam or Glasgow to turn that great idea into a great paper.
migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pap...
If you have a great idea for a research paper, submit your proposal - and come spend a week with us in Amsterdam or Glasgow to turn that great idea into a great paper.
migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pap...
Ok, this is a cool initiative. One can publish here, the reviewer comments are publicly available, as are the responses, all the versions of a paper AND the reviewer names. Is this the future? Philosophers, would you consider submitting here? open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
October 30, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Ok, this is a cool initiative. One can publish here, the reviewer comments are publicly available, as are the responses, all the versions of a paper AND the reviewer names. Is this the future? Philosophers, would you consider submitting here? open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
October 27, 2023 at 7:12 PM