Juan Espíndola

Aufenthalt

September 2011−August 2012

Forschungsthema

»Peace-building and Paternalism«

Projektbeschreibung

Peace-building missions usually raise a host of moral and political concerns. The principles and practices commonly deployed in peace-building operations involve trade-offs between competing moral and political values. In my post-doctoral research I wish to explore one such trade-off—the dilemma between international humanitarian endeavors and paternalism. To what extent is humanitarian assistance premised on a paternalistic policy towards the host countries? If certain conditions warrant paternalistic assistance, and therefore paternalism should not be ruled out ex ante, what are these conditions? What kinds of reasons can be offered in order to justify paternalist intervention? Are they consequentialist or contractualist in shape? If the premises behind the justification for assistance are not paternalistic, to what extent may the implementation of concrete assistance measures turn out to be paternalistic?

Wissenschaftliches Profil

Juan Espíndola hat 2011 an der Fakultät für Politikwissenschaft der University of Michigan mit einer Arbeit über »The Disclosures of Respect: The Case of Stasi Denunciators after the German Reunification« promoviert. Während seines Studiums war er mehrfach im Ausland ‒ u.a. am Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris und am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht in Heidelberg.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

• »Is Historic Injustice beyond the Scope of Rawlsian Theory? « (zusammen mit Moises Vaca, in Vorbereitung).
• El hombre que lo podía todo, todo, todo. Ensayo sobre el mito presidencial en México, México: El Colegio de México 2004.