Here are the papers I published in English.
- The Dependence of Libertarianism on the Notion of Sovereignty.
Critical Review Vol. 20, Issue 3-4 (2008).
Defends my Libertarian Natural Rights paper against criticism of Gary Morton, published in the same issue.
Morton's critique | My response - Sovereignty as a Religious Concept.
The Monist Vol. 90, Issue 1 (January 2007), pp. 126-142.
An analysis of the concept of sovereignty. I argue that we have only one possible example of a sovereign, namely the god of the semitic religions.
abstract | paper - Natural Rights and Individual Sovereignty.
Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 12, Issue 2 (December 2004), pp. 147-162.
Can we have a moral right to do things that are immoral? Some people have said "Yes", but others have vehemently denied the same. This paper argues how such an idea could have developed out of a completely different one.
abstract | pre-print | online version - Libertarian Natural Rights.
Critical Review Vol. 16, Issue 4 (December 2004) pp. 353-375.
Libertarianism relies on a natural rights theory, which takes the idea of individual sovereignty as basic. The theory is flawed because it cannot ground an obligation for different sovereigns to respect each other's sovereignty.
abstract | paper- How to Study Human Rights and Culture (...Without Becoming A Relativist).
Philosophy in the Contemporary World Vol. 11, Issue 2 (autumn-winter 2004), pp. 1-6.
Arguing for the existence of a non-trivial link between culture and human rights does not commit the author to relativism or a simplistic notion of culture.
abstract | paper- A Plea for Theory in Rethinking Human Rights.
International Legal Theory Vol. 9, Issue 1 (Fall 2003), pp. 135‑165.
Edward Rubin has claimed that we should rethink human rights. From his paper, however, it is neither clear why this should be the case, nor what would be involved in rethinking them. I suggest that we need a theory of rights.
abstract | paper - How to Study Human Rights and Culture (...Without Becoming A Relativist).