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Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين

@loubnaelamine

Political theorist, focusing on ancient Chinese political thought. Assistant Professor, Northwestern U. From Beirut. I write about the question of East & West.

Evanston, Illinois loubnaelamine.comJoined January 2018

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Thrilled to have an article, “The Nation-State 1648–2148,” in this anniversary issue of

@PoliticalTheory

. As the title suggests, the article thinks through the end of the nation-state.

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Political Theory

@PoliticalTheory

It is our sincere honor and pleasure to have been able to curate the 50th Anniversary Issue of Political Theory. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, and Editorial Assistants who have participated in this amazing confabulation! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ptxa/51/1

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مقالي عن اللاجئين #السوريين في #لبنان والنقاش المحتدم حول وجودهم: هي معركة اتخذت فيها الأطراف المتناحرة من اللاجئين واللبنانيين دروعاً بشرية.. وقد استخدمت فيها الأرقام والإحصاءات لإطلاق الصواريخ ضد الرأي الآخر، موحية للمتابع بأن الأرقام مقدّسة وغير مسيّسة، وأنها علمية وموضوعية..

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هذه المعركة كانت لتنتهي في أرضها لو كان الخيار اختزالياً حقوقياً بحتاً بين ثنائيات لا ثالث لهما: مع حقوق الإنسان أو ضد حقوق الإنسان. مع بقاء اللاجئين السوريين أو مع ترحيلهم. - فرح شقير daraj.media/108338/

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@Wendy_Pearlman

Thank you for re-upping this! Nearly a decade ago, I met an incredible young Syrian revolutionary while he was in a hospital bed in Jordan. I couldn't stop thinking of his story, and the result was this essay in

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Tabitha H. Sanders

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“It is easy to forget that, for many, this nightmare began with a dream.” @Wendy_Pearlman 5/15/2014 guernicamag.com/fathers-of-rev

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David Myer Temin

I’m looking forward to presenting work on treaties from my book next Monday (May 22) at the Northwestern Political theory colloquium. If you’re around the area, please do stop by! Thanks to

for the kind invitation! planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/593624

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Thoughtful piece by

on “Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Beyond the good-versus-evil narrative”

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1- My article on the #Syrian refugees in #Lebanon, whereby I reflect on 5 key issues beyond the good versus evil narrative. These five issues deserve to be addressed calmly, rather than dismissed with accusations: 1) Demography matters. middleeasteye.net/opinion/lebano

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Kevin Elliott | @kevinjelliott@mastodon.online

@DissentientOne

If you'll be in Chicago on Monday, come over to the Global Theory workshop at

, where I'll be doing a book talk on Democracy for Busy People 12:30-2pm. More details here: (sites.northwestern.edu/politicaltheor)

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@Wendy_Pearlman

عبرنا جسراً وقد اهتز -- الفصل الرابع الآن باللغة العربية

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الجمهورية.نت

@aljumhuriya_net

تواصل الجمهورية نشر الترجمة العربية الكاملة لكتاب ويندي بيرلمان «عبرنا جسراً وقد اهتز»، والذي ستتوالى فصوله تباعاً كل أسبوع. اليوم يتحدث سوريون وسوريات عن ذكرياتهم مع انتشار الزخم الثوري عام 2011 ومساعي النظام القمعية. bit.ly/40WndFD

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Dream team

and

@Wendy_Pearlman

🤩 I can't imagine a more perfect pair for leading

@PoPpublicsphere

, a space in the discipline for substantively important, ethical, and rigorous research. Congratulations!

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APSA is delighted to announce that @anamarjona and @Wendy_Pearlman of Northwestern University have been selected to lead the APSA flagship journal @PoPpublicsphere. politicalsciencenow.com/meet-the-edito

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What an excellent choice on the part of APSA!

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APSA is delighted to announce that @anamarjona and @Wendy_Pearlman of Northwestern University have been selected to lead the APSA flagship journal @PoPpublicsphere. politicalsciencenow.com/meet-the-edito

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Congratulations to

for this very well-deserved recognition! I am looking forward to seeing how the project shapes us!

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Kaplan Humanities Institute

We are delighted to welcome the Franke Graduate Fellows of @KaplanHum for 2023-24: @JinxueChen (@PoliSciatNU); Madeleine Le Cesne (Performance Studies, @NU_SoC); Greg Manuel (Performance Studies); and Arianna Ray (Art History @WeinbergCollege)! twitter.com/WeinbergColleg…

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الجمهورية.نت

@aljumhuriya_net

📕 تواصل الجمهورية نشر الترجمة العربية الكاملة لكتاب ويندي بيرلمان «عبرنا جسراً وقد اهتز»، والذي ستتوالى فصوله تباعاً كل أسبوع اليوم، نتحدث عن بداية الانتفاضة والزلزال النفسي والأخلاقي الكبير الذي دفع سوريين وسوريات إلى الشوارع

aljumhuriya.net

عبرنا جسراً… (3): الثورة

بداية الثورة السورية في درعا وحمص والمعضية وحماه وحلب برواية السوريين والسوريات الذين عاصروا الأحداث منذ البداية

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@Wendy_Pearlman

Now in #Arabic on

@aljumhuriya_net

: Chapter 3 of "We Crossed A Bridge & It Trembled." It shares incredible about the start of the Syrian revolution & what it felt like to "break the barrier of fear." I shouldn't have favorites, but this chapter is the highlight of my career!

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الجمهورية.نت

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تواصل الجمهورية نشر الترجمة العربية الكاملة لكتاب ويندي بيرلمان «عبرنا جسراً وقد اهتز»، والذي ستتوالى فصوله تباعاً كل أسبوع اليوم، نتحدث عن بداية الانتفاضة والزلزال النفسي والأخلاقي الكبير الذي دفع سوريين وسوريات إلى الشوارع aljumhuriya.net/?p=43775

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@longtweetergram

The Department of Political Science at Duke University invites applications for a post-doctoral associate position in Political Theory. The position is for one year and will begin August 1, 2023. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24683. Deadline: April 25th, 2023.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

Thursday, April 20! I'm honored to join the

concluding conference at

to present my new book project (forthcoming in 2024 from

), which explores displaced Syrians' stories on the meaning of home. Zoom registration below 👇

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Whole-Comm Project

Save the date for @MAGYC_H2020's concluding conference!

April 20 in Paris and online Registration for the keynote address is open

twitter.com/MAGYC_H2020/st…

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Join us next Wed at 4pm #Beirut time. I will be talking abt knowledge produced by development agencies in MENA.

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Arab Reform Initiative / مبادرة الإصلاح العربي

@ArabReform_ARI

New webinar!

#Knowledge as a Public Good: What Knowledge Do Humanitarian and Development Agencies Produce in #MENA?

4pm Beirut

5 April Register now

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

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مع استدعاء لارا البيطار

من

@ThePublicSource

وجان قصير من

@megaphone_news

للتحقيق امام محاكم واجهزة غير مختصة، وبعد تضييق الخناق من قبل نقابة المحامين على حرية المحامي، تستكمل حلقة الدولة التضييق على الحريات تعويضاً عن انحسار دورها "الخدماتي".

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عندما ينحسر دور الدولة بالشق المتعلق بالخدمات التي تقدمها للمجتمع (طوعاً من خلال النيوليبرالية او فرضاً من خلال الانهيار)، لا تنسحب الدولة بالمطلق من ادارة المجتمع. لكنها، وتعويضاً عن انحسار دورها الخدماتي، تستشرس من خلال دورها القمعي (قمع الحريات، والتخوين، والترهيب…).

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𝐊𝐚𝐣𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚 

Out now with

— a bit of Hobbes and corporate theory to brighten your day.

tandfonline.com

Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation

The paper examines Thomas Hobbes’s theory of the state and representation in light of the historical development of the idea of the people as a corporation and its use in late-medieval and early-mo...

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo

My paper just came out in

@PoPpublicsphere

I am proud of this paper: it was hard to satisfy the editors and reviewers (they gave superb advice...but I had to revise the thing more times than I care to remember!) Here’s a thread about it. 1/8

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#OpenAccess from @PoPpublicsphere - Territorial Rights for Individuals, States, or Pueblos? Answers from Indigenous Land Struggles in Colonial Spanish America - ow.ly/a7Tg50KwpNR - Paulina Ochoa Espejo #FirstView #PoP20

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Two time zones on the same university campus! This has to be a world first

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American University of Beirut

Read #AUB's announcement on the daylight savings timing implementation. Full message: aub.edu.lb/emergency/Docu

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Lebanon wakes up in two time zones because of daylight savings spat

The caretaker prime minister delayed moving clocks ahead. The Maronite church sprang forward.

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At Beirut airport today, I went through passport control at noon (they were using international time). I then entered a wormhole and boarded my flight at… 11:30 a.m. (Berri/Mikati time)

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𝐊𝐚𝐣𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚 

These are *actual* proofs of an *actual* paper that I have *actually* written for an *actual* journal 😱

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Check out my new book, co-authored with Stephen K. White, available TODAY with

: *The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation.* See attached flyer to get 30% off and the thread for more information!

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🌻 On this mothers’ day in Lebanon- remembering the pain of so many of us, Lebanese moms, forced to watch our kids leave because they have no prospects if they stay, the compounded pain for all those of who cannot pass on our nationality to our families… Change has to come!

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It’s website official! My book “Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul” is in production with

due to be released in the fall with this gorgeous cover. Can’t wait! Live link below.

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Are you a junior China scholar going on the polisci job market this Fall?

, Melanie Manion and I are hosting the 3rd New Faces in Chinese Politics Conference on 8/9-10, 2023

. Deadline: 4/30. More info: tinyurl.com/5h3shyte

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YIN Shoufu 殷守甫

I have received the proof of the History of Political Thought. I'm really excited that Liu Bei will stand alongside “Bodin, Burke, … Vico, and Weber” as those who have been featured once :)

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انسحاب اللبنانيين من السياسة مخيف. هذا ليس باحباط فقط، انه نتيجة يأس تكون بعد الانتخابات مفاده ان "التغيير مستحيل". هذه ليست حتمية. فشل الانتخاب (وما سمي بتكتل التغيير) ليس فشلاً للسياسة بشكل مطلق. انتصار واحد من شأنه ان يعيد حيوة المجتمع. كيف نحققه؟

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وكيف بعرف انو ابني أميركاني؟ بيقول "أنا بحبك" للناس بكل سهولة.

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You know you’ve succeeded in raising your child in the Lebanese way when he asks for olive oil on his pancake.

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مداخلتي حول تصريحات وزير الشؤون الاجتماعية في #لبنان. أعتبر أن تصريحه والذي يسخر فيه من اعطاء أولوية لمشاركة المرأة وصحتها الانجابية والجنسية بمثابة اعلانه التنحي عن القيام بمهامه. فوزارته هي الوحيدة في لبنان التي تضم دائرة تعنى في قضايا المرأة ووحدة الصحة الانجابية والجنسية.

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Jaafar Abdul Karim

@jaafarAbdulKari

"هل إنهاء زواج القاصرات أولوية؟" ...تصريحات وزير لبناني تثير غضبا ومغردون "عقلية ذكورية بامتياز!" #جعفر_توك

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Very happy that my piece on a Shklarian historical method, originally published online in 2021, is included in this issue of EJPT.

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European Journal of Political Theory

Issue 22.2 (April 2023) is now available! On economic dependence and micro-domination, Arendt, Bentham and Shklar, African American Political Thought, and much more! journals.sagepub.com/toc/epta/22/2

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Kevin Elliott | @kevinjelliott@mastodon.online

@DissentientOne

My book has a cover! Coming out in May, Democracy for Busy People: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book

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Northwestern Political Science

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! 🚨 Professor Loubna El Amine (

), "The Nation-State 1648-2148", published in the 50th Anniversary edition of

@PoliticalTheory

(

) doi.org/10.1177/009059

El Amine, L. (2023). The Nation-State 1648–2148. Political Theory, 51(1), 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221128834

Abstract
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate those claims in their future contexts? How will the consistent concerns of political theorists evolve into the questions critical for people decades or centuries from now? What new problems will engage the political theorists (or their rough equivalents) of the future? What forms might those take? What follows is one of the many confabulations published in response to these queries.

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Weinberg College at Northwestern and 2 others

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My take on the future evolution of political theory in the remainder of the 21st century published in the most recent issue of

@PoliticalTheory

, devoted to the futures of the discipline: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11

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مها حطيط

تغطية #زلزال #تركيا من أضنة الى انطاكيا مرورا بكهرمان مرعش وعثمانية والاسكندرون،لن أنسى أبدا مشهد الدمار الهائل ولا نظرات السكان التائهة الحزينة التي شهدت أبشع اللحظات وأقساها، لن أنسى انهيار الاهالي لحظة انتشال جثمان ولا الدموع التي لم تتوقف من الذين خسروا عائلاتهم وأحبابهم

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I'm honored to be in great company in the 50th-anniversary issue of Political Theory, where I wrote about the political theory capitalism and work through a review of Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government and Kathi Weeks' The Problem With Work

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Political Theory

@PoliticalTheory

It is our sincere honor and pleasure to have been able to curate the 50th Anniversary Issue of Political Theory. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, and Editorial Assistants who have participated in this amazing confabulation! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ptxa/51/1

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Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين

@FakhreddineHuda

Arabic Modernism's Other Tradition, a commentary series I wrote for Jacket2 in 2019 while writing my book on the prose poem. The first installation was on Unsi al-Hajj who passed away on Feb. 18 nine years ago. jacket2.org/commentary/poe

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My thanks to the editors at

@PoliticalTheory

for publishing this essay on one of my favorite pastimes: being strange!

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Political Theory

@PoliticalTheory

50 Years of Political Theory!

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo

It’s out! I contributed an essay about the future of the discipline, and I had so much fun writing it (particularly the bibliography!). Can’t wait to read all the other pieces.

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50 Years of Political Theory!

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