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Andreas Oldenbourg
SFB 700 - Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood
Research Associate
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Binger Straße 40 Room 107 14197 Berlin |
| Telephone: | +49 (0)30 838 58523 |
| Fax: | +49 (0)30 838 58540 |
| E-Mail: | andreas.oldenbourg@fu-berlin.de |
Andreas Oldenbourg studied Political Science and Philosophy in Heidelberg, Helsinki and Berlin. He has been working as a research associate for the SFB 700 since March 2010. In his PhD thesis he tackles struggles for collective self-determination from a normative point of view. Such struggles reflect a metaproblem of legitimacy. They occur when the boundaries of a political community, for which binding decisions are to be made, are contested. In areas of limited statehood this is often the case. If struggles for collective self-determination take place, it becomes plain that a political community is not necessarily identical with a people formally subjected to a public authority. Furthermore, struggles for collective self-determination reveal claims of political communities unfulfilled thus far. These often includes demands for secession. The PhD thesis analyses under which conditions demands for secession can be considered legitimate and in which cases alternative solutions should be favoured.
Academic Career
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| Since 03/2010 |
Research associate at the SFB 700, project B9 “Metaproblems of legitimacy”; teaching undergraduate classes at the FU Berlin. |
| 10/2002 – 07/2009 |
Study of Political Science (1,2) and Philosophy (1,0) at the Freie Universität Berlin, University of Helsinki and Heidelberg University Title of “Diplom” Thesis (master equivalent): “Liberalism as Social Criticism. A Reconstructive Interpretation of Dworkin‘s Conception of Equality“ Supervisors: Prof. Bernd Ladwig and Prof. Tine Stein |
Publications
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| 2012 |
Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood. SFB Governance Working Paper Series No 27 (with Daniel Jacob und Bernd Ladwig), Berlin: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 700. |
Presentations
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| 09/2011 | Toward a Republican Conception of Collective Self-Determination, "The Diversity of Human Rights", Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik. |
| 05/2011 | Governance for Whom? Human Rights, Special Relations and Corresponding Obligations (with Daniel Jacob und Bernd Ladwig), International Conference "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: By Whom, for Whom, and to What Effect?", Freie Universität Berlin. |
| 09/2010 |
Social Justice and the Right to Secede, "The Diversity of Human Rights", Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik. |
Teaching
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| Summer 2011 | Undergraduate seminar at FU Berlin: “Theories of Secession” |
| Winter 2010/11 |
Undergraduate seminar at FU Berlin: “Liberalism and Communitarianism” |
