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Lior Erez
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Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Fellow, @blavatnikschool.bsky.social | Reviews and Commentaries Editor, European Journal of Political Theory | liorerez.wordpress.com
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 23d
📢 New Open-Access Working Paper! @artsofdenial.bsky.social & Rainer Bauböck ask:

Citizenship as Reparations: Should the Victims of Historical Injustice Be Offered Membership❓

13 authors reply 💬, exploring questions of justice, colonialism, nation-building, and more 🌍

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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · 23d
My contribution, building on the framework I develop in my book project, is that reparative citizenship could be permissible even when it does not generate a right to citizenship. See here:

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Citizenship as Reparations: Should the victims of historical injustice be offered membership? - Page 5 of 15 - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by David Owen and Rainer Bauböck. Comments by Jocelyn Kane and Patti Tamara Lenard, Ashley Mantha-Hollands, Timothy Jacob-Owens, Lior Erez, Peter Spiro, Christoph Sperfeldt, Alfon...
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · 23d
Glad to see the debate on reparative citizenship, with a lead essay by David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social and Rainer Bauböck, and responses from many great scholars, is now available in full at the @globalcit.bsky.social website: cadmus.eui.eu/entities/pub...
Citizenship as reparations : should the victims of historical injustice be offered membership?
A growing number of states have adopted “reparative citizenship” laws. This forum discusses the normative justification and problematic implications of such policies. In their initial essay, David Owe...
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Aug 27
A nice overview of my research with @ndasandi.bsky.social , on the occasion of our 2023 World Development article winning the 2025 Elsevier Atlas Award in the theme of global peace and justice

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Framework to protect human rights wins award for global impact - University of Birmingham
A political framework, created by Birmingham and Oxford researchers, to support aid donor countries to protect human rights, wins the Atlas Award 2025.
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · Jun 26
My introduction to the special issue on relational equality & migration is now out! It provides a comprehensive introduction to the state of the debate about relational egalitarianism & migration + an overview of the special issue contributions doi.org/10.1515/mopp... #philsky #poltheory #migcitsky
Relational Egalitarianism and Migration: An Introduction
In this introductory essay to the special issue on relational equality and migration, I first introduce a familiar way of conceiving of the connection between equality and migration, one that focuses ...
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Jun 27
And the winning article itself:

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The flag and the stick: Aid suspensions, human rights, and the problem of the complicit public
Foreign aid donors often use, or are expected to use, the threat of aid suspensions in response to human rights violations. The use of such conditiona…
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Jun 27
Here is the abstract:
Foreign aid donors often use, or are expected to use, the threat of aid suspensions in response to human rights violations. The use of such conditionality seeks to pressure the ‘recipient’ government into ending or preventing rights abuses. This article argues that this approach tacitly relies on the assumption that most citizens in the recipient country oppose their government’s rights violations. However, in recent years, and particularly linked to the rise of populism, there has been growing recognition of instances around the world in which significant parts of the public support government actions giving rise to human rights violations. Drawing in particular on the example of donor responses to recent efforts to introduce repressive anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda, the article argues that such cases present donors with a dilemma that arises because the threat of aid suspensions serves two distinct but related purposes: an instrumental function (‘the stick’), whereby the threat of withdrawing aid is used to pressure the ‘recipient’ government into ending the rights violation; and an expressive function (‘the flag’) that is often overlooked, whereby conditionality signals the donor government’s commitment to international human rights norms. While typically these two functions of aid conditionality reinforce one another, we show that when faced with a ‘complicit public’, the stick and flag come apart, generating the dilemma for donors. The threat of aid sanctions is likely to trigger a public backlash but refraining from effective criticism will undermine support for international human rights norms. Based on this analysis, the article provides a framework for recognizing and evaluating potential responses to this dilemma that considers the salient political and ethical features of such contexts. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of understanding the political ethics of aid suspensions and other donor responses to human rights violations.
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Jun 27
Good news! "The flag and the stick: Aid suspensions, human rights, and the problem of the complicit public", written by the Bluesky-less Niheer Dasandi and yours truly, and published in World Development, is the 2025 @ElsevierAtlas Award Winner (Peace and Justice Theme)

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Dimitry Kochenov Yaroslavsky @profkochenov.bsky.social · Jun 23
Comm v.Malta seminar at @ucl.ac.uk Laws on June 4, convened by @colmocinneide.bsky.social A variety of takes 🇪🇺EU illiberal turn; merit to philosophical & comparative.

Horrible video/cool conversation❗️https://youtu.be/2CtESu1Y4Qs
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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · Jun 4
Fascinating and important conversation on the groundbreaking CJEU judgment of European Commission v Malta with @profkochenov.bsky.social, @sarahganty.bsky.social, Dr Oliver Gerstenberg, @liorerez.bsky.social and @msumption.bsky.social, chaired by Dr Claudia Sternberg

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jun 10
IN NEW ISSUE: Many argue for limits on a state's right to exclude potential members, but what about limiting inclusion? @liorerez.bsky.social‬ & Ayelet Banai argue the principle of self-determination offers an answer: buff.ly/jmaaqyA (OPEN ACCESS)

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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · May 19
'Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include', with Ayelet Banai, now in the new
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We explore the limits on the state's right to include new citizens, and argue that the principle of self-determination supports such limits.

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Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include - Lior Erez, Ayelet Banai, 2025
States’ right to exclude prospective members is the subject of a fierce debate in political theory, but the right to include has received relatively little scho...
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 5
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 5
Oh dear, I forgot to include the link:

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Apr 3
⚡❗New Entry ⚡❗

Does historical injustice create a right to citizenship, or is it just a policy choice? @liorerez.bsky.social argues that reparative citizenship isn’t a right – it is permissible but not required.

States may offer it, but they don’t have to. 🇪🇸🇵🇹⚖️

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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 2
That is the theory in a nutshell. This is a premilinary exploration into this question, so hopefully more on this shortly. Looking forward to hear what you think in the meantime! [5]
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 2
In our way out of this impasse, the conditional view, we argue that the right to self-determination does allow a freedom to include, which is limited by the equal right to self-determination of other states. The limits arise from the value of self-determination itself [4]
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 2
Is there such a thing as 'permissible inclusion'? We argue that political theory is divided: Either the state has the right to determine its own membership rules (=Yes), or membership rules are determined by an external normative theory (e.g. jus nexi), and then No. [3]
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 2
In this article, instead of asking when do individuals have a claim to be included, we ask whether (and when) may the state can include individuals who do not have such a claim. Consider cases of citizenship by investment or granting citizenship to athletes. [2]
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 2
My article with Ayelet Banai is now available (open access!) in @polstudies.bsky.social ! We ask what are the limits on the state's right to include new citizens, and argue that, surprisingly, the principle of self-determination supports such limits.
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 2
Very happy to have this chapter appear in the new handbook on the ethics of immigration alongside a fantastic line up of clever colleagues. Please let me know if you want to read and do not have access!

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The Nation, The State, and The Foreigner | 15 | Rethinking the Place o
This chapter presents a framework for analyzing the role of nationalism in the ethics of immigration, particularly in relation to inclusion and integration.
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