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Research Interest(s): Normative Political Theory; Global Ethics; Citizenship Studies; Migration; Cosmopolitanism
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Philosophy
Biography
Lior Erez is an assistant professor and researcher at the Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF) in Sciences Po Paris. He is a normative political theorist, working primarily at the intersection between international relations, global ethics, and politics of citizenship and migration.
Lior holds a PhD in Political Theory from University College London and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge. Before joining CEVIPOF, he was the Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford; a Departmental Lecturer in Theory of Politics at the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford, in association with Worcester College; A Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, The Law, Ethics and Markets Programme in the Edmond J. Safra Centre for Ethics at Tel Aviv University, the Minerva Centre for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the MINDSS interdisciplinary programme at the University of Haifa; and a Teaching Associate in Ethics and World Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
His current book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, focuses on practices of granting citizenship beyond immigration and residence, such as citizenship for sale, citizenship as reparation for historical injustice, and citizenship as reward for heroic actions. He is interested in the way these new practices relate to the changing nature of the institution of citizenship as a response to economic globalisation, transnational identities, and the marketisation and commodification of citizenship. In addition, he also works on other topics such as the ethics of war, international aid, and cosmopolitanism.
publications
Selected Publications
"Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration", American Political Science Review, Vol. 120 (2), 2026: pp. 746-758.
“Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include”, Political Studies, Vol. 3 (2), May 2025: pp. 753-769 [co-authored with Ayelet Banai].
“The Flag and the Stick: Aid Suspensions, Human Rights, and the Problem of the Complicit Public”, World Development, Vol. 168, 2023. [Co-authored with Niheer Dasandi]. Winner of the Elsevier Atlas Award for Peace and Justice (2025).
“Not Yours to Sell: The Case against Private Citizenship Markets”, Political Research Quarterly, Vol 76 (3), September 2023: pp. 1089-1101.
“In for a Penny, or: If You Disapprove of Investment Migration, Why Do You Approve of High-Skilled Migration?”, Moral Philosophy and Politics, Vol 8 (1), April 2021: pp. 155-178.
“Think Local, Act Global: Civic Vigilance as Cosmopolitan Political Motivation”, Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol 51 (4), Winter 2020: pp. 628-644.
“Liberal Nationalism, Immigration, and the Problem of Multiple National Identities”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol 23 (4), June 2020: pp. 495-517.
“Cosmopolitan Patriotism as a Civic Ideal”, American Journal of Political Science, Vol 64 (1), January 2020: pp. 191-203. [co-authored with Cécile Laborde]
“The Donor’s Dilemma: International Aid and Human Rights Violations”, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 49 (4), October 2019: pp. 1431-1452. [co-authored with Niheer Dasandi]
“Pro Mundo Mori? The Problem of Cosmopolitan Motivation in War”, Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 31 (2), July 2017: pp. 143-165.
“Anti-Cosmopolitanism and the Motivational Preconditions for Social Justice”, Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 43 (2), April 2017: pp. 249-282.