Ben Mueser

New article out in @PoliticalTheory: "The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought." Message me for a copy! doi.org/10.1177/009059…

Including new Ian Hunter on the “perpetual emergence of political thought”

I wrote about some recent trends in the law of nations literature and international political thought for History of Euro Ideas, check it out here >> doi.org/10.1080/019165…

Trending in #Philosophy: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead? (@APA_Journal) 2) Fat-calling 3) The law of nations in international political thought (@HEIjournal) 4) Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm

Just a reminder to everyone that it's a great time over in the other place. We're nice, all your cool friends are there, and we have booze.

Looks interesting: Benjamin Mueser, "The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought," Political Theory (2024) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Excellent piece by Arash Abizadeh explaining the reasons behind PAPA’s entire editorial board resignation (JPP did the same a few months ago) and the exploitation on which (commercial) academic publishing is based. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Job update - Starting in the Fall, I'll be a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. Excited to join the community and contribute to this unique program! socialstudies.fas.harvard.edu/people/benjami…

Or Rosenboim @OrRosenboim has published a new blog on our website, examining the roles of family and food in rethinking world order. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/displa…

At the upcoming Progressive Summit @DPZ_Berlin, I will be debating with @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz the future of Europe, security, justice, and the (global) meaning of freedom - chaired by Guardian's @KathViner. Registrations are now open.

We're excited to announce the publication of a new CGO blog by @OrRosenboim on the roles of family and food in rethinking world order. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/displa…

@avshalom_s @SMU Congratulations 🎉👏

Thomas Porsborg Sorensen of @EUI_History will be speaking about the 'racialisation of German foreign trade' at tomorrow's Modern European History Workshop. Join in-person or online, at 11am!

Call for Application: The 2025 Quentin Skinner Lectureship Deadline: 24 June (midnight UK time) More information: crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fello… . @CamHistory @Dept_of_POLIS @qmHPT @Politics_Oxford @ISIHtweets @PolThought @StAndrewsIIH @IntellectualHi4 @inthisEUI @CamGIH @gpolthought

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New article alert! “Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights Under Empire,” in International Studies Review @IntlStudiesRev Curious about what’s in there? Want to talk about territory, sovereignty, and the Holy Roman Empire? 🧵

@IntlStudiesRev Oh and here's the DOI link: doi.org/10.1093/isr/vi…

Read on to learn about cool stuff like territorial rights, 1495 imperial reforms, primogeniture, administrative science (gute policey), feudal rights, Andreas Knichen, and of course, the treaties of Münster & Osnabrück.

For a lot of jurists, the big question was now how to vindicate state sovereignty, but how to maintain both territorial and imperial law in the same system.

This matters because this is actually where a lot of early international law (the law of nations) came from!

Holding territorial autonomy was not only consistent with the hierarchy of the HRE, but was actually fundamental to preserving it.

The article traces how a wide variety of dynastic privileges and claims were recast as a single territorial right (landeshoheit, iure territorii) in the centuries before 1648.