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"Démocratie, nation et ethnie : le problème des frontières.” Raison publique (2013).

"A Critique of the "Common Ownership of the Earth" Thesis." Les Ateliers de l'éthique 8.2 (2013): 33-40.

"Publicity, Privacy, and Religious Toleration in Hobbes's Leviathan." Modern Intellectual History 10.2 (2013): 261-291.

"On the Demos and its Kin: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Boundary Problem." American Political Science Review 106.4 (2012): 867-882.

"Hobbes on the Causes of War: A Disagreement Theory." American Political Science Review 105.2 (2011): 298-315.

"Democratic Legitimacy and State Coercion: A Reply to David Miller." Political Theory 38.1 (2010): 121-130.

"How Baha'i Voters Should Vote." The Journal of Baha'i Studies 18.1-4 (2008): 77-94.

"Is There a Genuine Tension between Cosmopolitan Egalitarianism and Special Responsibilities?" Philosophical Studies 138.3 (2008): 348-365. (Co-authored.)

"Democratic Theory and Border Coercion: No Right to Unilaterally Control Your Own Borders." Political Theory 36.1 (2008): 37-65.

"Cooperation, Pervasive Impact, and Coercion: On the Scope (not Site) of Distributive Justice." Philosophy & Public Affairs 35.4 (2007): 318-358.

“On the Philosophy/Rhetoric Binaries, or, Is Habermasian Discourse Motivationally Impotent?” Philosophy & Social Criticism 33.4 (2007): 445-472.

"Liberal Egalitarian Arguments for Closed Borders: Some Preliminary Critical Reflections." Ethics & Economics 4.1 (2006).

"Democratic Elections without Campaigns? Normative Foundations of National Baha'i Elections." World Order 37.1 (2005): 7-49.

“Was Fichte an Ethnic Nationalist? On Cultural Nationalism and its Double.” History of Political Thought 26.2 (2005): 334-359.

“In Defence of the Universalization Principle in Discourse Ethics.” The Philosophical Forum 36.2 (2005): 193-211.

“Does Collective Identity Presuppose an Other? On the Alleged Incoherence of Global Solidarity.” American Political Science Review 99.1 (2005): 45-60.

“Historical Truth, National Myths, and Liberal Democracy: On the Coherence of Liberal Nationalism.” The Journal of Political Philosophy 12.3 (2004): 291-313.

“Liberal Nationalist versus Postnational Social Integration: On the Nation's Ethno-Cultural Particularity and Concreteness’.” Nations and Nationalism 10.3 (2004): 231-250.

“Introduction to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.” World Order 34.2 (2002–2003): 19–27.

“The Passions of the Wise: Phronêsis, Rhetoric and Aristotle’s Passionate Practical Deliberation.” The Review of Metaphysics 56.2 (2002): 267-296.

“Does Liberal Democracy Presuppose a Cultural Nation? Four Arguments.” American Political Science Review 96.3 (2002): 495-509.

“Amnesia, Obsession, Cinematic U-Turns: On Mulholland Drive.” Senses of Cinema 19 (2002). (Co-authored.)

“Ethnicity, Race, and a Possible Humanity.” World Order 33.1 (2001): 23-34.

“Banishing the Particular: Rousseau on Rhetoric, Patrie, and the Passions.” Political Theory 29.4 (2001): 556–582.

“Informational Constraint and Focal Point Convergence: Theoretical Implications of Plurality-Rule Elections for the New Institutionalism.” Rationality and Society 13.1 (2001): 99–136.

“‘Because Baha’u’llah Said So’: Dealing With a Non-starter in Moral Reasoning.” Baha’i Studies Review 5.1 (1995): 83–85.

 

"The Representation of Hobbesian Sovereignty: Leviathan as Mythology." In Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century. Ed. S. A. Lloyd. Pp. 113-152. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

“Closed Borders, Human Rights, and Democratic Legitimation.” In Driven From Home: Human Rights and the New Realities of Forced Migration. Ed. David Hollenbach. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010.

“Citizenship, Immigration, and Boundaries.” In Ethics and World Politics. Ed. D. S. A. Bell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Thomas Hobbes et le droit naturel.” In Droit naturel, relancer l’histoire? Ed. Xavier Dijon. Brussels : Bruylant, 2008.

 

"The Radical Hobbes." Review essay of Jeffrey R. Collins, The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) and James Martel, Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). In Political Theory 37.5: 706-712.

Response to Joseph Carens’s “In Defense of Amnesty for Irregular Migrants.” Boston Review 34.3 (2009).

Review of David D. Laitin, Nations, States, and Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). In Nations and Nationalism 14.3 (2008): 616-617.

“Politics beyond War: Ulrich Gollmer’s Contribution to Baha’i Political Thought.” World Order 35.3 (2004): 19-23.

Review of Keven Brown and Eberhard von Kitzing, Evolution and Baha’i Belief: Abdu’l-Baha’s Response to Nineteenth-Century Darwinism (Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2001). In International Journal of Middle East Studies 36.1 (2004): 148-149.

Op-Ed Piece: “Respecting Civil Rights in Iran.” Harvard Crimson A–13 October 19, 1998.