Ayelet Banai

Aufenthalt

Januar/Februar 2014

Forschungsthema

»The Right of Self-Determination: An Egalitarian Account«

Projektbeschreibung

The purpose of the project is to develop an egalitarian account of the content of right of peoples to self-determination – specifically of the social and economic components of the right, as stipulated in the international Covenants on human rights. Self-determination, on this account, is a freedom to which all self-determining agents have an equal right and which, accordingly, involves a duty on each not to undermine the freedom of others. The egalitarian interpretation of self-determination proposes a third way in current debates about international justice between statists and cosmopolitans. While it is accommodating to cosmopolitan and global egalitarian concerns, it needs not endorse the individualist-cosmopolitan view of denying (or objecting to) the moral standing of autonomous political collectives in international theory and politics.

Wissenschaftliches Profil

Ayelet Banai hat 2010 am am Fachbereich für Poltikwissenschaft und Interantionale Beziheung der Oxford University promoviert. Von 2010-2013 war sie Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der an der Goethe-Universität angesiedelten DFG-Kollegforschergruppe »Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global«.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

• »The Territorial Rights of Legitimate States: A Pluralist Interpretation«, in: International Theory, Bd. 6,1 (2014): Symposium: Theories of Territory beyond Westphalia (hg. mit Margaret Moore) (im Erscheinen).
• »Political Self-Determination and Global Egalitarianism: Towards an Intermediate Position«, in: Social Theory and Practice, Bd. 39 (2013), S. 45-69.
• »Language Recognition and Fair Terms of Inclusion: Minority Languages in the European Union«, in: Sophie Guérard de Latour und Peter Balint (Hg.), Liberal Multiculturalism and the Fair Terms of Integration, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
• » ›Europe of the Regions‹ and the Problem of Boundaries in Liberal Democratic Theory«, in: Journal of Political Ideologies, Bd. 17 (2012), S. 35-59.
• (hg. mit Patti Lenard und Tiziana Torresi), Global Justice and Migration, Special Issue of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric Bd. 5 (2012).
• (hg. mit Miriam Ronzoni und Christian Schemmel), Social Justice, Global Dynamics, London: Routledge 2011.