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City University of New York Graduate Center
Omar Dahbour
- Ph.D. (Philosophy) City University of New York
- Ph.D. (History) University of Chicago
odahbour [at-sign-here] hunter [put-a-dot-here] cuny [put-a-dot-here] edu
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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
- Hegel (Fall 2007)
- Social and Political Philosophy (Core) (Spring 2007, 2006)
Representative Publications
- "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)