PhD defended, survived, and officially done 🎓

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🎉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.😌

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...

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.... 1/

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...

🦋 #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

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

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...#openaccess

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....

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...

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.

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