Join us for a roundtable discussion exploring the intersections of technology, gender, and global power dynamics, hosted by the Gender Studies Network at King's College London. The event will take place on May 14th at 1:30 PM in the King's Building, Strand Campus.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/femin...
We are delighted to invite nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2026 BIAPT Early-Career and Mid-Career prizes! The deadline for nominations is May 22nd. Full details are below 👇
www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-prizes...
I wrote about Lebanon in the NYRB: “A strong state cannot emerge out of an all-out assault, let alone out of occupation. War begets not peace but capitulation, and all capitulation will beget—at the price of so much death and destruction—is a new modus vivendi."
📢 Call for Papers
KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference | 22 May 2026 (in person, London)
We invite submissions in political theory & related fields from Graduate students.
🎤Keynote: Prof. Bernardo Zacka (MIT)
⏰ Deadline: 2 Feb 2026 (11:59pm GMT)
🔗 For more info: philevents.org/event/show/1...
New article by John Meadowcroft @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social on "Nozick and the Invisible Hand of Racial Injustice" out in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
New article by Paul Sagar on "Adam Smith, David Hume, and the Problem of Moral Relativism" out in Social Philosophy and Policy.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
Want to come spend two years in the UK working on a research project? Come to KCL on British Academy International Fellowship. Guidance for our internal selection process available here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun... happy to chat about it
Robin Douglass' and Edward Hall's "Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance" has just been published in the Review of Politics.
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Opposition to ICE violence is consistent with studies conducted over the years: people opposing immigration still oppose very violent enforcement. They oppose violent enforcement even when it’s necessary to force migrants to leave. See our studies here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
excited to have a research note for DERISK, co-authored with my two amazing post-docs Virginia De Biasio and Robert Reamer. In the note, we outline some of the threats posed by systemic risks to democracy and discuss a potential pathway forward. Check it out here: www.derisk.org.uk/working-papers
🆕 Congratulations to our academic, Dr Udit Bhatia, and the POPGOV research team who have been awarded a €9 million Synergy Grant by the European Research Council 🙌
Read more about their ground-breaking project focussed on democratic systems here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ground-...
Podcast on my book:
newbooksnetwork.com/absolute-eth...
Page proofs! My article addresses social ontology in Smith and Hegel and will be out soon with the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
And @loubnaelamine.bsky.social reviews Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order, by Anthony Pagden
Humeira Iqtidar's "Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration" is out in the American Political Science Review. 2025;119(3):1159-1172. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Samuel DeCanio and Colin Jennings on "Competition and causal inference: Economic choice and welfare analysis under potential outcomes" just published in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Please follow my excellent colleague @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social! She is new to B-Sky but writes very many interesting (& methodologically innovative) things, including her new piece in @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social
From our latest issue: "Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration" by Humeira Iqtidar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'Abundance is not so much about overcoming neoliberalism, as its authors claim, but about patching it up.'
@stevenklein.bsky.social reviews Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance.
renewal.org.uk/blog/can-abu...
The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference is now available in Early View. @loubnaelamine.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/09/15/t...
I am thrilled that my article "The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference" is now out in the American Journal of Political Science.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
Our academic, Steven Klein, and co-author Ethan Porter challenge the view that ordinary citizens are not competent enough to sustain democracy in an article for @bjpols.bsky.social 🗳️
Read more ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
If you’re a PhD student working on politics, philosophy and/or economics, consider applying for the KCL PPE grad conference! The form can be found here: forms.office.com/e/ZC0MXYhMVk
Ph.D. students in the PPE research group at KCL are organising the "PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference" on November 26th, 2025. See the details here: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr
Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. Student and help us spread the word.
youtube version of my conversation with @stevenklein.bsky.social about the political theory of unions
youtu.be/Dx1r4oUN3Sk?...
Excited to have a short piece up on the APA blog series Perspectives on Democracy, examining the role of collective power in thinking about democratic renewal
blog.apaonline.org/2025/08/13/a...
Delighted to be part of this celebration and reflection on Christian Joerges's contributions to understanding the democratic fate of European economic integration.
