Benjamin Mueser

Benjamin Mueser is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard College. Formerly he was a Core Lecturer at Columbia University, and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a political theorist and international relations scholar working on the historical and normative foundations of states and the territorial order, with interests in the history of international political thought, state formation, and territorial rights. His book, The Territorial Revolution in Political Thought (under contract with Oxford University Press), examines the transformation of European theories of land and territory from patrimonial dynastic states to national collective property. His writing has appeared in International Studies Review, Global Intellectual History, History of Political Thought, and The Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.