Research
Benjamin Mueser is a PhD candidate in political theory and international relations at Columbia University, focusing on historical theories of territory and the origin of the modern territorial state. His dissertation studies the intellectual resources of state formation during the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries in the work of Samuel Pufendorf, John Locke, Christian Wolff, and Emer de Vattel. He also writes on the normative of land ownership and nationalism, and has presented research on approaches to the ethics of land from Kantian and liberal perspectives.
In Fall 2020, Ben will join the European University Institute as a Max Weber Fellow. He is currently an instructor for Columbia's Contemporary Civilization course.
In Fall 2020, Ben will join the European University Institute as a Max Weber Fellow. He is currently an instructor for Columbia's Contemporary Civilization course.
