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Samer Alnasir

Samer Alnasir

UNED (visiting June 2023-August 2023)

PhD Candidate in Ethics and Political Philosophy at the National University of Education by Distance (UNED), Spain

Contact Information:

Email: samer@alnasir.org

Website: alnasir.org

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9232-9035

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=es&user=K6UtvrUAAAAJ

Academia: https://zzn.academia.edu/SamerALNASIR

SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=988728

Research Interests
  • Northern-Southern Dichotomy and the dilemma of modernity as a (post)structural resilience, peace dynamics, identity and belonging under massive ethical values, elites’ formation, politics of memory, and intergroup cohesion.
  • Constitutional religious and ethnic confluences, through the massive transnationalisation of the idea of laïcité beyond the European context.
  • Aesthetics in the public sphere as an institutional kinesthetic instrument of public administrations, and its instrumentalization as a material act of public power.
Education
  • PhD Candidate in Ethics and Political Philosophy, National University of Education by Distance (UNED), Spain (Ongoing)
  • LLM in Protocol Studies, UNED, Spain
  • LLM in Public Law, University of Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
  • LLM in Administrative Law, University of San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain, former DEA.
  • Ph.D. in Constitutional Law, University of San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain
  • High Diploma in International Relationships, International Studies Society (SEI)
  • Jean Monet Diploma, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
  • Furthermore have attended the LLM in Legal Theory, Louvain University, Belgium (former European Academy of Legal Theory KUB& FUSL) and LLM in Military Law, Catholic University of San Antonio (UCAM), Spain.

Current Advisor: Professor Dr. Fco. Colom, National University of Education by Distance (UNED), Spain, ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-4535

Language Skills:

- Spanish: Native proficiency

- Arabic: Native proficiency

- French: C1 (certified DELF B2 nº 090212024646)

- English: C1 working proficiency

- Polish: B1 proficiency (certified)

- Turkish: B1 proficiency (certified)

- Russian: A2 proficiency (certified)

- DAEFLE Examiner Certification in French nº 42665.

- C1 Examiner Level in Spanish for Foreigners (certified)

Publications

Books

Alnasir, S. (2018). Tragedy of Orientalism. Istambul: Aswat Books.

Alnasir, S. (2004). Towards a Rule of Law State in Iraq. Madrid: Euro-Iraqi Network for Public Law.

Chapters

Alnasir, S. (2023). Christian Identity in Spanish Heraldic Representation: Flagrant Shameless-Populist Normalization. In M. Van der Tol, Z. Grozdanov, S. R. C. Johnson, & P. Kratochvíl (Eds.), Christianity in cultural and political space: Beyond the liberal-illiberal binary in Europe. Brill (processing).

Alnasir, S. (2005). Iraqi Constitutional Though into past and present. In Bassiouni (Ed.), Iraqi constitutional studies (pp. 469–518). Chicago: The International Institute of Human Rights. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1120821

Alnasir, S. (2005). Toward a constitutional future. In Bassiouni (Ed.), Iraqi constitutional studies (pp. 113–170). The International Institute of Human Rights. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1120929

Alnasir, S. (2006). Critic of the political transition agreement. Derecho constitucional para el siglo XXI: acts of the VIII Ibero-American Congress of constitutional law, I, 597–606.

Alnasir, S. (2003). Temptation Constitutionnelle de l’Irak. In J. M. Crouzatier, (Ed.), Justice Constitutionnelle en Asie (pp. 156–186). Presse Universitaire de Toulouse.

Journal Articles

(2025). Historical Myths and Modern Divides: The Far-Right’s Rise as a Normative Nostalgic Identity in Spain and Greece. In A. S. Isaloo & E. Gusciute (Eds.), Modern Racism & the rise of the far-right. Taylor & Francis.

(UR 2025). Protocol & Public Aestheticism: A Bold Proposal for Administrative Law. Journal of Government and Public Administration.

(UR 2025). Philosophical Outcry on the Definition of the Palestinian Moral Calamity. Journal of Colonial War.

(Ongoing). Union Court of Iraq. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL). Oxford University Press.

Alnasir, S. (2023). Protocolo. EUNOMÍA. Review in Lawfullness, 24(2023), 300-318. https://doi.org/10.20318/eunomia.2023.7668.

Alnasir, S. (2022, July 7). Iraq Urgently Needs a Real Constitution [Academic]. IACL-IADC Blog. https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/new-blog-3/2022/7/7/iraq-urgently-needs-a-real-constitution.

Alnasir, S. (2022). Laicism: idolatry trap or constitutional nihilism. International Journal of Political Thought, 16, 333-356. https://doi.org/10.46661/revintpensampolit.6043

Alnasir, S. (2021). Belief and belonging: The labyrinth of post-Ottoman societies . Passagens: International Review of Political History and Legal Culture, 13(3), 389–418. https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-202113301

Alnasir, S. (2021). An Anthropological Introspection into Identitarian, Social, Religious and Coloniality Social Practices in Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Annals of Anthropology, 55(2), 195-209. https://doi.org/10.22201/iia.24486221e.2021.78433

Alnasir, S. (2021). The (Other) in Postcolonial Narratives – Literary Fallacy and Harmful Memory: An Empirical Analysis. Advocatus, 37, 1-37. https://doi.org/10.18041/0124-0102/a.37.8183.

Alnasir, S. (2021). Calamities of the (post)Colonial Law and it’s Orientalism: Religious Affiliation and Individual liberty in Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia. Mexican Bulletin of Comparative Law, 158, 485–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2020.158.15627.

Alnasir, S. (2019, Winter). Defeats and Defects of Spanish Cyberdiplomacy in the Arab World. Public Diplomacy Magazine, 22, 61–63.

Alnasir, S. (2012). The constitutional precedent, and the Americanization of legal practice in continental law, new challenges in the legal globalization. Iraqi Review of Legislation and Jurisprudence.

Alnasir, S. (2005). Toward a new dogma of legal neopositivism. Hesperia, Cultures of the Mediterranean, 3, 251–262.

Alnasir, S. (2005). The Iraqi constitutional future, a pendent point in the political transition. Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1, 31–42.

Alnasir, S. (2004). The European legal-cultural sense and the future of the institutional mission to Iraq. Acts of the III Congress of Catholics and public life, I, 441–444.

Alnasir, S. (2004). The right to not be bothered: information and privacy. M. Carrillo (2003). Iurieuroarab, 4 (book review). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3525110

Journal Articles

Hegemonic Values and Ethical Sovereignty: Decoding the Northern-Southern Dichotomy, MESANA, (U. Georgetown, November 2024).

Unveiling Autocratic Insemination: Poststructuralist Perspectives as Colonial Legacies, IPSA 75, Lisbon (September 2024).

Iraq: Navigating Postcolonial Calamities and Structural Failures, IPSA RCs 14, 23, 28, 50 & 53 Colloquium (U. Chișinău, May 29 – 31 2024)"