Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy

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CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (CRISPP) Eds Richard Bellamy (UCL), Annabelle Lever (Sci Po), Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill), Patti Lenard (Ottawa), Alexandru Volacu (Bucharest) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/current

New paper: 'Children (and animals) in Nozick's political philosophy', which I co-authored with Arabella Fisher, in @crispp.bsky.social. It's part of a special issue marking (over) 50 years of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, edited by Fabian Wendt. Available open access below.

Children (and animals) in Nozick’s political philosophy

According to Susan Moller Okin, Robert Nozick’s libertarianism leads to a matriarchal dystopia: mothers own their children and may dispose of them as they please. This challenge rests on the claim ...

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The winner of the 2025 CRISPP Essay Prize goes to: Patrick Lenta "Can Transitional Amnesties Promote Restorative Justice?" (CRISPP, Vol. 27, Issue 5). Details of the prize, the jury's report, and free access to the article, can be found at the following link: www.tandfonline.com/journals/fcr...

CRISPP Essay Prize

Explore the article collection: CRISPP Essay Prize. Published in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

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Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception. Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

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New article now out and on open access - “Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation” is now published in Volume 27, Issue 3 of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations and is available at doi.org/10.1177/1369...

Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation - Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, 2025

It is sometimes suggested that even democratic politicians need to dirty their hands in ways that render hypocrisy, lying and deception unavoidable and even jus...

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Even the Guardian in my view fails to underline how worrying this is …. The BBC treats such news as if we should be rejoicing and heading for the beach. No wonder climate change isn't being taken seriously. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Temperatures could hit 27C on Saturday as UK’s sunniest spring on record draws to end

Morning rain could affect Northern Ireland and Scotland but southern and eastern parts likely to remain dry

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The latest issue of CRISPP is now online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... - Muldoon on digital socialism,Thompson and Modood on religious recognition, Goodin on excuses, Althorpe on Meaningful work, Eskelinen on global justice, Perez on Data based radicalism and more ....

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Volume 28, Issue 4 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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Engaging with the neon-machiavellian justification of lying and the Neo-Platonic notion of the 'noble' lie to argue for the need for political truthfulness

Richard Bellamy@rbellamy.bsky.social · last yr.

An enjoyable discussion with @alanrenwick.bsky.social on the necessity for democratic politicians to be truthful - in some ways a taster for my next book project ...https://uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/should-politicians-always-be-truthful