Publications of Arash Abizadeh

Journal articles

• “The Quarrelling Paradox Revisited: A General Framework for a Class of Quarrels and Sabotage.” Journal of Theoretical Politics, forthcoming. (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh and Adrian Vetta)
• "The Burdens of Jurisdiction and the Alleged Right to Exclude Unwanted Migrants." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, forthcoming.
• "Power, Costs, Collective Action, Bargaining, and Solidarity." American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.
• "​Elicitory Structural Power and Agential Power: An Outline and Defense." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 30.7 (2025): 1041-70.
• "What Toleration is Not." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 28.7 (2025): 1305-11.
• "A Recursive Measure of Voting Power that Satisfies Reasonable Postulates." Games and Economic Behavior 148 (2024): 535-565. (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh and Adrian Vetta)​

  "The Blocker Postulates for Measures of Voting Power." Social Choice and Welfare 60.4 (2023): 595–623. (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh and Adrian Vetta)

• "The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite, and Power-over." Political Studies 71.1 (2023): 3-19.
• "A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy." The Journal of Politics 84.3 (2022): 1652–66.
• "Consequences, Conscience, and Fallibility: Early Modern Roots of Toleration." Critical Review 34.1 (2022): 16-27 .
• "The Scope of the All-Subjected Principle: On the Logical Structure of Coercive Laws." Analysis 81.4 (2021): 603-610.
• "Representation, Bicameralism, Political Equality, and Sortition: Reconstituting the Second Chamber as a Randomly Selected Assembly." Perspectives on Politics 19.3 (2021): 791-806.
• "Counter-Majoritarian Democracy: Persistent Minorities, Federalism, and the Power of Numbers." American Political Science Review 115.3 (2021): 742-756.
• "The Power of Numbers: On Agential Power-With-Others Without Power-Over-Others." Philosophy & Public Affairs 49.3 (2021): 290-318.
• "Glory and the Evolution of Hobbes’s Disagreement Theory of War: From Elements to Leviathan." History of Political Thought 41.2 (2020): 265-298.
• "Subjectivism, Instrumentalism, and Prudentialism about Reasons: On the Normativity of Instrumental Transmission." European Journal of Philosophy 27.2 (2019): 387-402.
• "Hobbes’s Conventionalist Theology, the Trinity, and God as an Artificial Person by Fiction." The Historical Journal 60.4 (2017): 915-941.
• “The Rights of Migrants and the Protection of Fundamental Human Interests: On Carens’s The Ethics of Immigration.” Political Theory 43.3 (2015): 380-387.
• "A Critique of the "Common Ownership of the Earth" Thesis." Les Ateliers de l'éthique 8.2 (2013): 33-40.
• "Démocratie, nation et ethnie : le problème des frontières.” Raison publique (2013).
• "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: Arash Abizadeh & Pablo Gilabert)

  "Hobbes's Agnostic Theology before Leviathan." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47.5 (2017): 714-737.

• "Hobbes on Mind: Practical Deliberation, Reasoning, and Language." Journal of the History of Philosophy 55.1 (2017): 1-34.
• “The Absence of Reference in Hobbes’ Philosophy of Language.” Philosophers' Imprint 15.22 (2015): 1-17.
• "Wage Competition and the Special-Obligations Challenge to More Open Borders.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 14.3 (2015): 255-269. (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh, Manish Pandey, & Sohrab Abizadeh)
• "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: Kirsten Ostherr & Arash Abizadeh.)
• “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.

monograph

• Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

book chapters

• "Hobbes's Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure." In A Companion to Hobbes. Ed. Marcus P. Adams. Pp. 109-124. Wiley Blackwell, 2021.
• “In Defence of Imperfection: An Election-Sortition Compromise.” In Legislature by Lot. Ed. John Gastil & Erik Olin Wright. Pp. 249-255. London & New York: Verso, 2019.
• "Which Procedure for Deciding Election Procedures?" In Should We Change How We Vote?Evaluating Canada's Electoral System. Ed. Andrew Potter, Daniel Weinstock, & Peter Loewen. Pp. 188-196. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
• “Les signes religieux, la laïcité et la mentalité médiévale : du débat public sur la Charte des valeurs.” In Les Conditions du dialogue au Québec : Laïcité, réciprocité, pluralisme. Ed. Alain-G. Gagnon & Jean-Charles St-Louis. Pp. 29-41. Montréal: Québec Amérique, 2016.
• “Sovereign Jurisdiction, Territorial Rights, and Membership in Hobbes.” In The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes. Ed. A.P. Martinich and Kinch Hoekstra. Pp. 397-431. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• “The Special-Obligations Challenge to More Open Borders.” In Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Ed. Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi. Pp. 105-124. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• “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. Pp. 147-66. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010.
• “Citizenship, Immigration, and Boundaries.” In Ethics and World Politics. Ed. D. S. A. Bell. Pp. 358-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• “Thomas Hobbes et le droit naturel.” In Droit naturel, relancer l’histoire? Ed. Xavier Dijon. Pp. 331-78. Brussels: Bruylant, 2008.

reviews & other articles

• Review of Thomas Holden, Hobbes’s Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2023). In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2025).
• Review of Matthew Longo, The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). In Perspectives on Politics 17.1 (2019): 233–235.
• “Reply to Critics of Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics.” Online Colloquium of the European Hobbes Society (Jan. 11, 2019).
• “Introduction to Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics.” Online Colloquium of the European Hobbes Society (Dec. 14, 2018).
• "Do Prosperous Democracies Have a Right to Keep out Desperate Foreigners?" The Critique (2016/01/06).
• Review of Joseph H. Carens, The Ethics of Immigration (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014).
• "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 (2009): 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.

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