Omar Dahbour

Ph.D. (Philosophy) City University of New York
Ph.D. (History) University of Chicago

Research Interests

The Theory of Political Sovereignty

Nationalism and its Alternatives (patriotism, internationalism, cosmopolitanism)

The Ethics of Political Violence (war, revolution, terrorism)

Critical Theory and its History (Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Marcuse, Habermas)

Courses Recently Taught

Political Sovereignty (Fall 2009)

Hegel (Fall 2007)

Social and Political Philosophy (Core) (Spring 2007, 2006)

Representative Publications

Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, Jan. 2013)

"Hegemony and Rights: On the Liberal Justification for Empire," in Dawson/Schueller (eds.), Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (Duke, 2007)

"Advocating Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization," Journal of Social Philosophy (2006)

"Three Models of Global Community," Journal of Ethics (2005)

"The Response to Terrorism: Moral Condemnation or Ethical Judgment?" Philosophical Forum (2005)

Illusion of the Peoples: A Critique of National Self-Determination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)

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