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62
Citations
23399
World Ranking
1231
National Ranking
573

Overview

Allen Buchanan is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, focusing on political science and international relations, general health professions, management, monitoring, policy and law, health, and sociology and political science.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Ethics in Medical Practice
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Ethics in Clinical Research

Allen Buchanan's publication record comprises both journal articles and books. Some of their recent papers include:

  • THE PERPETUAL STRUGGLE: HOW THE COEVOLUTION OF HIERARCHY AND RESISTANCE DRIVES THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY AND INSTITUTIONS, 2021, Social Philosophy and Policy
  • PREPARING FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC, 2023, Social Philosophy and Policy

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Ethics & International Affairs
  • Social Philosophy and Policy
  • Science
  • The Lancet
  • Journal of Applied Philosophy

Allen Buchanan has collaborated often with several coauthors, including Joel H. Rosenthal, Jana Weinstein, Alex J. Bellamy, Daniel R. Brunstetter, and Deen K. Chatterjee.

Their book publications include:

  • Secession and Self-Determination, 2022, New York University Press eBooks
  • Our Moral Fate, 2020, The MIT Press
  • Ideology and Revolution, 2025, Cambridge University Press

Best Publications

  • Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making

    Allen E. Buchanan;Dan W. Brock

  • Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice

    Allen E. Buchanan;Dan W. Brock;Norman Daniels;Daniel Wikler

  • The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions

    Allen Buchanan;Robert O. Keohane

  • Political Legitimacy and Democracy

    Allen Buchanan

  • Rawls's Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World*

    Allen Buchanan

  • Ethics, efficiency, and the market

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • Assessing the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • Marx and Justice : The Radical Critique of Liberalism

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • Theories of Secession

    Allen Buchanan

  • Justice, legitimacy, and self-determination

    Allen Buchanan

  • Secession: The Morality Of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter To Lithuania And Quebec

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation.

    Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Govind Persad;Adam Kern;Allen E. Buchanan

  • The Heart of Human Rights

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • Hereditary Hemochromatosis: Gene Discovery and Its Implications for Population-Based Screening

    Wylie Burke;Elizabeth Thomson;Muin J. Khoury;Sharon M. McDonnell

  • The Preventive Use of Force: A Cosmopolitan Institutional Proposal

    Allen Buchanan;Robert O. Keohane

  • The right to a decent minimum of health care.

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • Justice as reciprocity versus subject-centered justice

    Allen Buchanan

  • Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law: The legitimacy of global governance institutions

    Allen Buchanan;Robert O. Keohane

  • Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force

    Allen E. Buchanan

  • Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec

    Desmond Morton;Allen Buchanan

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan W. Brock
Dan W. Brock Harvard University
Norman Daniels
Norman Daniels Harvard University
Benjamin S. Wilfond
Benjamin S. Wilfond University of Washington
Ellen Wright Clayton
Ellen Wright Clayton Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Andrea Califano
Andrea Califano Columbia University
Arno G. Motulsky
Arno G. Motulsky University of Washington
Ernest Beutler
Ernest Beutler Scripps Research Institute
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen

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