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Sven Altenburger
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Political Theorist. Incoming Walter Benjamin Postdoc, University of Oxford.
Military Institutions, Citizenship, Taxation. svenaltenburger.com
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📢 CfP: Military Institutions and Democratic Resilience

Panel at the International Congress on Political Theory (Passau, 5–7 October 2026). Looking forward to submissions! tinyurl.com/military-dem...
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#CfP:
Papers for the 2nd #TheoryCongress ‘Backsliding, Resilience, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation’ can be submitted until 15 December.

Panels will be held in either German or English.

👇Below the link to the call. There you will also find the link to the overview of the panels.👇
Call for Papers - University of Passau
Applications are possible from 26 November 2025
www.uni-passau.de
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#CfP: Für den 2. #Theoriekongress "Backsliding, Resilienz, Erneuerung? Demokratie in Zeiten des Wandels" können bis zum 15. Dezember Beiträge für die ausgeschriebenen Panels eingereicht werden.

👇Unten der Link zum Call. Dort findet ihr auch den Link zur Übersicht über die Panels.👇
Call for Papers - Universität Passau
Anmeldungen sind möglich ab 26. November 2025
www.uni-passau.de
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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As of today, 'Who Will Defend Europe?' is available in paperback with an updated preface.

I really did hope that by now, a year after first publication, some of Europe's defence emergency would have been addressed and some of the warnings in the book would have been proven wrong.

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Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defence holiday, outsourcing protection to the United St...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
📢 CfP: Military Institutions and Democratic Resilience

Panel at the International Congress on Political Theory (Passau, 5–7 October 2026). Looking forward to submissions! tinyurl.com/military-dem...
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Field “offers a lucid analytical template of New Right thought, along with penetrating analyses of some of its major figures such as Patrick Deneen, Yoram Hazony, and Adrian Vermeule.”

@lkatfield.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Research Assistant (War Studies)
King's College London - School of Security Studies School Office #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK464/r...
Research Assistant (War Studies) at King's College London
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November 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Now available in the US. To help understand what norms Trump is breaking, Kori Schake's history of American civil-military relations.
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Ein neuer Leviathan-Sonderband befasst sich mit „Politischen Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen“. Welche Fragen und Themen verhandelt der Forschungszweig? Wir haben bei den Herausgeber:innen @aaronsahr.bsky.social, Eva Weiler und @huhnholz.bsky.social nachgefragt.

www.soziopolis.de/nachgefragt-...
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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My new article, 'Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration', is now available (open access) in APSR
@apsrjournal.bsky.social

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doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration
doi.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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„Der andere Ökonom“ nun auch bei mir angekommen🤩

Ich verlose ein Exemplar. Gewohntes Muster: Retweet = Teilnahme. Auslosung am 3. Oktober.

#MaxWeber #Finanzsoziologie #Fiskalpolitologie
September 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Neuer Aufsatz: (Wie) lässt sich eine Wehr- und Dienstpflicht normativ rechtfertigen? www.soziopolis.de/pflicht-frei...
Pflicht, Freiheit und Gleichheit
Zur normativen Rechtfertigung von Wehr- und Dienstpflicht
www.soziopolis.de
September 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Was leistet die wehrhafte Demokratie? Und was braucht es zu ihrer Verteidigung? Aus gegebenem Anlass veröffentlichen wir ein Dossier über Perspektiven, Potenziale und Probleme eines (wieder) aktuellen Konzepts.

www.soziopolis.de/dossier/wehr...
September 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Mit einem Essay der beiden Gastherausgeberinnen @monikaoberle.bsky.social und Tine Stein sowie Beiträgen von Hubertus Buchstein, Verena Frick, Thomas Goll, @svenaltenburger.bsky.social und Nina Leonhard.
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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"Why Civil and Military Conscription Deserve a Second Look" by Sven Altenburger. (@svenaltenburger.bsky.social)
ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/2025...
Why Civil and Military Conscription Deserve a Second Look – The Journal of Politics Blog
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June 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Think your taxes are a private matter? I argue otherwise in my new open access paper, out now in European Journal of Political Theory: doi.org/10.1177/1474...
The case for tax publicity - Sven Altenburger, 2025
Many liberal democracies today exhibit deep income and wealth inequalities, which are connected to prevailing tax regimes and practices. This situation is not o...
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May 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Aus unserer Sektionsreihe im @nomosverlag.bsky.social:

Burkhard Conrad @rotsinn.bsky.social hat eine Besprechung zu "Politische Grundbegriffe im 21. Jahrhundert", hrsg. von Tobias Adler-Bartels, @svenaltenburger.bsky.social, Verena Frick, Tobias Schottendorf & Tine Stein, veröffentlicht.
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Über politische Grundbegriffe im 21. Jahrhundert. Eine Buchbesprechung.
Was sind politische Grundbegriff und welche Rolle spielen diese – oder sollten sie spielen – in der neueren wissenschaftlichen Debatte? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich ein Band, der …
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April 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Just published! My new article on military and civil conscription is out in the current issue of @thejop.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1086/730738
What’s the argument? A short thread:
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Reconsidering Military and Civil Conscription | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 2
Contemporary scholars, including political scientists and political philosophers, tend to hold a highly critical view of military and civil conscription. However, these institutions are clearly back o...
doi.org
April 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM