Ayelet Banai Lecturer (assistant professor) in Politics, School of Political Sciences, The University of Haifa (Israel) Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: January/February 2014 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »The Right of Self-Determination: An Egalitarian Account« Project outline: 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. (Ayelet Banai) Funding of the stay: »Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global«Scholarly profile of Ayelet BanaiAyelet Banai holds a D.Phil. from the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University (2010). She was a research fellow at the Centre for Anvanced Studies Justitia Amlificata, Goethe University Frankfurt (2010-2013).Main areas of research: International Political Theory, Democratization, Identity politics, Self-determination, Theories of freedomSelected publications:
Further academic activities: Ayelet Banai is co-editor of Global Justice. Theory Practice Rhetoric. |