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...

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...

NEW - Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - cup.org/3I85Zlp - @stevenklein.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social #OpenAccess

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.

Thrilled that @kdpham.bsky.social's wonderful book "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization” has received the 2025 Ralph J. Bunche Award. The book is a great addition to our series "Studies in Comparative Political Theory" at OUP. politicalsciencenow.com/kevin-d-pham...

‘Policies built on myths are hard to revise. The repeated accusation that Hamas had systematically diverted aid is unfounded, according to many agencies with experience in Gaza.’ Amjad Iraqi on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

‘Far-right politicians in Israel, many of them in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, have made no secret of that fact that they hope starvation will encourage the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from the territory.’ Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

زياد الرحباني موسيقى ما تفل

‘The response to this genocide shouldn’t be to allow more food into Gaza so that Palestinians can be saved from starving but killed by Israeli bombing. Rather, it should be to undo the system of control and killing.’ Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘“What can be done?” the European diplomat might ask me today. For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’ Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

On the contingency of history - writing in LA Review of Books.

"We are dying before the ears and eyes of the whole world. The whole world is watching the Gaza Strip. If people aren't killed by the Israeli army, they die trying to get aid."

‘I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. At one point he told me: “Everyone says great writers know what to write and how to write. But everybody can figure that out. What matters is knowing where to write from.”’ New from Amir Ahmadi Arian: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Do citizens have the capabilities required for democracy? The standard story is that empirical research debunks normative democratic theory. With @ethanvporter.bsky.social, we argue for a better framework and show empirical research supports citizen capacities. Forthcoming in @bjpols.bsky.social

‘We see Yourcenar now encrusted by the times she lived in, as well as by the disappointment of feminists who wanted another sort of heroine.’ Joanna Biggs on the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, the first female member of the Académie Française: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We are hiring three education pathway lecturers/assistant professors for the fall - one in comparative politics, one in politics and research methods, and one in economics. Happy to answer questions about the department!

‘Laila had given ten years of her life to fighting for her son, and now, in what she decided would be the final act of the fight, she put her life on the line.’ NEW on the blog: Ahdaf Soueif on her sister Laila’s struggle for the release of her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

My phone is suddenly buzzing with Eid well-wishes and news about evacuation orders in Beirut, all at once. An unsettling jumble of hope and despair.

‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

I have an essay out in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social about the south of Lebanon.

Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.

1) Very pleased with this new piece co-authored with @arturochang.bsky.social in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social. In one respect, it's an exercise in the academic esoteric: an essay on a single footnote in Rousseau's Social Contract. But in another respect . . . www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797

Our academic, @stevenklein.bsky.social has joined the journal Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy as a contributing editor 📝 In the latest issue, Dr Klein interviews American writer John Ganz on 'the genealogy of Trumpism'. You can find it here 👇 renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

"Gaza is starvation under siege ... In almost every other famine on record, communicable diseases are the big killers. Gaza is an anomaly, a laboratory in which we will discover how much nutritional stress a population can withstand before succumbing en masse."

‘Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times after warnings from the IPC – but the recovery has been momentary before another plunge.‘ Alex de Waal on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

I am thrilled to have a chapter ("The Family-State Analogy in the Mengzi") in The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy edited by Justin Tiwald. I am particularly proud that an Arabic name has made it into the list of authors of such a volume on China. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Paul Sagar defends Bernard Williams’s account of the relativism of distance – just published in the European Journal of Philosophy: doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

The most comprehensive volume about constitutional theory ever published, one basically every topic (including my small take on corporatist and social democratic constitutionalism) www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Robin Douglass reviews Quentin Skinner’s latest book for IHR: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VZAW4...

Israel has just sent an evacuation warning for an area in Beirut’s southern suburbs after two rockets were fired from south Lebanon this morning (one intercepted & landed on Lebanese territory).

We’re hiring a fixed-term Lecture in Political Theory, with a focus on contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and critical theory: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK462/l...

The London Political Theory Network is organizing a panel on “Empire and Emancipation” on April 4, 3-5pm, at Senate House, involving Paul Apostolidis, Arturo Chang, Ulas Ince, Kimberly Hutchings, and Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí. For more details and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-and...

Deadline tomorrow: applications for the Melvin Richter Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the history of political thought.

In which I rant about how the Left better keep away from zombie Rawlsianism & other assorted moralisms damagemag.com/2025/02/25/s...

More jobs! We are also looking to appoint a Lecturer in PPE with a focus on the history of political economy and/or economic thought: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108485-...

🚨🚨🚨Major job alert klaxon!!!🚨🚨🚨 In the Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social we are currently advertising for 3 permanent academic posts (2 Political Theory, 1 PPE)! Details below. Happy to have an informal discussion with anyone interested. Please share widely!! 1/

We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

We are looking to appoint 2 Lecturers in Political Theory. The positions are open to all subfields of political theory (please note: you need only apply for one of the advertised posts to be considered for both): www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

Department of Political Economy at King's College London is hiring two (2) assistant professors in political theory. #polisky #PSJMInfo

I wrote a blog post on Nasrallah's funeral: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

Speaking soon at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on Arendt, Gaza and "Personal Responsibility Under Genocide" Panel w/ Musab Younis, Muna Dajani, Neve Gordon and Yea Lpi Jan 24, 3:30 pm RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/theoretica... .. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social

ICJ president Nawaf Salam is Lebanon’s new prime minister. He received the majority of votes, with 84 out of 128 MPs endorsing him over incumbent premier Najib Mikati, who received 9. Hezbollah’s bloc abstained. Salam flies in to Beirut from the Hague tomorrow.

With 99 votes, General Joseph Aoun becomes the new president of Lebanon after a 2+ year presidential vacuum. He has no relation to the last president Michel Aoun. Chibli Mallat received 2 votes and 'sovereignty and the constitution' got 13. 9 blank votes

Here is a rapidly growing starter pack with political theorists and philosophers. Please share it widely and send me a message if you want to be added to the list!!🌻 go.bsky.app/4uqLbgZ

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

In the city of Sahnaya, located in the countryside of Damascus, Syrian Christians are celebrating the fall of Assad: “One, one, one the Syrian people are one” as the church bells rings.

I’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.

Syria has freed itself of the Assad dynasty after 54 years. Bashar is gone.