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Dr. Ayelet Banai

Dr. Ayelet Banai

Lecturer

Field: Political Science 
Topics & Interests: Theories of Self-Determination, Nationalism and Diversity, Theories of Freedom, History of European liberalism

other functions: Member of the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa

 

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Ayelet Banai has received her D.Phil. in Political Theory from the University of Oxford with the thesis “Drawing Boundaries: Nations, States and Self-Determination”. She was a research fellow at the Centre for Anvanced Studies Justitia Amlificata, Goethe University Frankfurt (2010-2013). Her fields of research are theories of self-determination, nationalism and diversity, theories of freedom, and the history of European liberalism.

 

  • »The Territorial Rights of Legitimate States: A Pluralist Interpretation«, in: International Theory, vol. 6,1 (2014): Symposium: Theories of Territory beyond Westphalia (ed. with Margaret Moore).
  • »Political Self-Determination and Global Egalitarianism: Towards an Intermediate Position«, in: Social Theory and Practice, vol. 39 (2013), pp. 45-69.
  • »Language Recognition and Fair Terms of Inclusion: Minority Languages in the European Union«, in: Sophie Guérard de Latour and Peter Balint (eds.), Liberal Multiculturalism and the Fair Terms of Integration, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
  • » ›Europe of the Regions‹ and the Problem of Boundaries in Liberal Democratic Theory«, in: Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 17 (2012), pp. 35-59.
  • (ed. with Patti Lenard and Tiziana Torresi), Global Justice and Migration, Special Issue of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric vol. 5 (2012).
  • (ed. with Miriam Ronzoni and Christian Schemmel), Social Justice, Global Dynamics, London: Routledge 2011.

More publications by Ayelet Banai can be found here and here.

 

“Introduction to the European Union”

The purpose of this course is to introduce the European Union, by providing an
overview of the history, institutions, policies and politics of this unique regional
organization. The following topics are included:
(1) Historical development and trajectories
(2) Institutions
(3) Policies and Politics
(4) Political Economy
(5) Society and population
(6) Foreign affairs and relations, security and defense.

“Academic Writing”