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Eva Marlene Hausteiner

Eva Marlene Hausteiner teaches at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, where she holds the chair of Political Theory and History of Political Thought. She has studied Political Science, Russian Studies and Economics in Berlin, Potsdam, and New York, and has previously taught in Bonn, Greifswald, and Passau. Her work focuses on questions of empire, federalism, and political narrativity.

Photo: Join, or Die., a 1754 political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin published in The Pennsylvania Gazette in Philadelphia, addresses the disunity of the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War; several decades later, the cartoon resurfaced as one of the most iconic symbols in support of the American Revolution. Source: United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg

Imperial by Design: Is the US Model Worth Emulating?

August 25, 2026

Eva Marlene Hausteiner (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) argues that far from serving as a historical safeguard against empire, U.S. federalism has been entangled... Read more.