Ben Mueser

Teach @Harvard
Previously @EUI_EU / @Columbia
Political thought on land, territory, and state formation.
He/him
@Benwlm.bsky.social

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

New article out in @PoliticalTheory: "The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought."

Message me for a copy!

https://t.co/bP6Yb7sPrh

[Natasha Wheatley @natasha_wheatl]

Including new Ian Hunter on the “perpetual emergence of political thought”

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

I wrote about some recent trends in the law of nations literature and international political thought for History of Euro Ideas, check it out here >> https://t.co/SaNc2CXVfK

[OOIR @ObserveIR]

Trending in #Philosophy:
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1) Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead? (@APA_Journal)

2) Fat-calling

3) The law of nations in international political thought (@HEIjournal)

4) Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

Just a reminder to everyone that it's a great time over in the other place.

We're nice, all your cool friends are there, and we have booze.

[CambridgeIRHistory @HistoryIr]

Looks interesting:
Benjamin Mueser, "The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought," Political Theory (2024)
https://t.co/7sNg1tWAb8

[Lea Ypi @lea_ypi]

Excellent piece by Arash Abizadeh explaining the reasons behind PAPA’s entire editorial board resignation (JPP did the same a few months ago) and the exploitation on which (commercial) academic publishing is based. https://t.co/lXQ6bGDZE5

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

Job update - Starting in the Fall, I'll be a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. Excited to join the community and contribute to this unique program!

https://t.co/uIUSSWGgI9

[Changing Global Orders @OxGlobalOrders]

Or Rosenboim @OrRosenboim has published a new blog on our website, examining the roles of family and food in rethinking world order.

https://t.co/e6gpg6SSJz

[Lea Ypi @lea_ypi]

At the upcoming Progressive Summit @DPZ_Berlin, I will be debating with @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz the future of Europe, security, justice, and the (global) meaning of freedom - chaired by Guardian's @KathViner. Registrations are now open.

[Changing Global Orders @OxGlobalOrders]

We're excited to announce the publication of a new CGO blog by @OrRosenboim on the roles of family and food in rethinking world order.

https://t.co/e6gpg6Tqz7

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

@avshalom_s @SMU Congratulations 🎉👏

[Modern European History at Cambridge @MEHcambridge]

Thomas Porsborg Sorensen of @EUI_History will be speaking about the 'racialisation of German foreign trade' at tomorrow's Modern European History Workshop. Join in-person or online, at 11am!

[The Cambridge School @cambridge_cpt]

Call for Application: The 2025 Quentin Skinner Lectureship
Deadline: 24 June (midnight UK time)
More information: https://t.co/H3zFv6dNG9
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@CamHistory @Dept_of_POLIS @qmHPT @Politics_Oxford @ISIHtweets @PolThought @StAndrewsIIH @IntellectualHi4 @inthisEUI @CamGIH @gpolthought

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

@jcanfil @IntlStudiesRev Thanks!

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

New article alert! “Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights Under Empire,” in International Studies Review @IntlStudiesRev

Curious about what’s in there? Want to talk about territory, sovereignty, and the Holy Roman Empire? 🧵

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

@IntlStudiesRev Oh and here's the DOI link: https://t.co/ntKhIW88UE

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

Read on to learn about cool stuff like territorial rights, 1495 imperial reforms, primogeniture, administrative science (gute policey), feudal rights, Andreas Knichen, and of course, the treaties of Münster & Osnabrück.

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

This matters because this is actually where a lot of early international law (the law of nations) came from!

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

For a lot of jurists, the big question was now how to vindicate state sovereignty, but how to maintain both territorial and imperial law in the same system.

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

Holding territorial autonomy was not only consistent with the hierarchy of the HRE, but was actually fundamental to preserving it.

[Ben Mueser @benwlm]

The article traces how a wide variety of dynastic privileges and claims were recast as a single territorial right (landeshoheit, iure territorii) in the centuries before 1648.