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Daniel Jacob
Freie Universität Berlin
Binger Str. 40, 14197 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 83858524
E-Mail: [email protected]
Current Position
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”
Research Interests
Democratic theory, international ethics
Publications
–– Books
2014
Justice and Foreign Rule. On International Transitional Administration, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.
–– Peer-reviewed journal articles
2015
Every Vote Counts: Equality, Autonomy, and the Moral Value of Democratic DecisionMaking, Res Publica, 21:1, 61-75
2014
Gerechtigkeit durch Fremdherrschaft? Zur moralischen Rechtfertigbarkeit von internationalen Übergangsverwaltungen (Justice through Foreign Rule? On the Moral Justifiability of International Transitional Administration), Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 55:2, 243-267.
2012
Der Nationalsozialismus, Richard Rorty und die Möglichkeiten rationaler Verständigung
(National Socialism, Richard Rorty and the Possibility of Rational Communication),
Leviathan, 40:1, 109-128.
–– Other publications
2014
Das Internet als Heilsbringer der Demokratie? (The Internet as the Savior of Democracy)
[together with Manuel Thomas], Aus Politik und Zeitgeschehen, 64: 22-23, S. 35-39.
2012
Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood. SFB
Governance Working Paper Series Nr. 27 [together with Bernd Ladwig und Andreas
Oldenbourg], Berlin: DFG Collaborative Research Centre 700.
2010
Book Review: A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy,
Nation Building, and International Relations – Edited by Stefano Recchia and Nadia
Urbinati, Ethics & International Affairs, 24:2, 215-217.
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Education
–– 03/2013–present: Postdoctoral Research Associate
2014
Visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, philosophy department
2013
Visiting scholar at Cambridge University, department of politics and international studies
–– 09/2008–02/2013: PhD in Political Science (Dr. phil), Freie Universität Berlin
Title of dissertation: “The Natural Duty of Justice and International Transitional
Administrations. Restoring Justice through Foreign Rule?”
2010–
Research associate at the Freie Universität Berlin, collaborative research center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”
2009
Visiting scholar at Columbia University, Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies
2008–2013
PhD candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Graduate School for
Transnational Studies
–– 06/2008: Diploma in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Title of thesis: “Does democracy need a justification? Richard Rorty’s critique of
normative justification and his plea for democracy”
Teaching
–– Courses taught at Freie Universität Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institut for Political Science
2014
Graduate seminar “Pierre Bourdieu’s contribution to political theory”
2011
Undergraduate seminar “Normative theories of international relations”
2010
Undergraduate seminar “Jürgen Habermas’s political theory”
2010
Undergraduate seminar “Political liberalism”
Selected Presentations
09/2014
Why Statehood (Still) Matters for Democracy, ECPR General Conference, Glasgow.
08/2014
Civil War and the Responsibility to Protect: What are the Alternatives to Military
Intervention?, Workshop “The Diversity of Human Rights”, Inter-University Centre
Dubrovnik.
08/2014
Restoring Justice through Foreign Rule? International Transitional Administrations and the
Natural Duty of Justice, Fourth Global International Studies Conference, Frankfurt/Main.
09/2012
Limited Statehood and the Human Rights Obligations of Companies, Workshop “The
Diversity of Human Rights”, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik.
08/2010
Promoting Democracy by Means of Foreign Occupation, ECPR Graduate Conference,
Dublin.
06/2010
Promoting Democracy by Means of Foreign Occupation? On Legitimate and Illegitimate
Goals of International Transitional Administrations, Canadian Political Science Association
Annual Conference, Montreal.
11/2009
Protecting Human Rights by Means of Foreign Occupation? On the Legitimacy of
International Transitional Administrations, Northeastern Political Science Association
Annual Conference, Philadelphia.
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