I am one of three editors for the series Studies in Comparative Political Theory published by Oxford University Press. We would love to receive your manuscripts. All the details are here: global.oup.com/academic/con...

Humeira Iqtidar's book, Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq, Critical Theory and The Global South, is now out. It builds on oral histories of refugees from the Tribal Areas of Pakistan to offer a non-statist vision of justice foregrounding the agency of the oppressed. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📝 I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I’ve seen things Andy Burnham wouldn’t believe📝 Our academic, Dr Paul Sagar wrote about the social care system in the UK for @unherd.com ⬇️ unherd.com/2026/07/the-...

The truth about Britain's social-care cartel

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I am thrilled to be starting as Associate Editor of Political Theory at Perspectives on Politics together with Steven Klein. I admire the broad-minded work that PoP publishes and the vision of its two amazing editors, Ana Arjona and Wendy Pearlman. Do send us your manuscripts!

Very happy to be joining Loubna El Amine as the new political theory co-editors at Perspectives on Politics. Perspectives has been a vital forum for broad-minded political theory, and we're looking forward to continuing that tradition. Send us work that you're excited about!

What is the philosophy of work and democracy that follows from the historic labour movement? In my new article, I develop a democratic defense of labour unions and show how it leads to a distinctive vision of industrial democracy. Forthcoming in the APSR stevenmklein.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Well, that was fun! We organised the second Graduate Conference on Political Theory last week and it was such a great day. Thank you to all panellists, the senior academics who helped by chairing panels, and to Dr Bernardo Zacka for a most creative and engaging keynote! @kingspoltheory.bsky.social

🗓️ KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference 2026 | 22 May Join us from 10.30AM for three panels on coercion, responsibility, and transformation. 🎤 Keynote (5.30PM) by Bernardo Zacka (MIT): 'On doing political theory with an ethnographic sensibility.' 🔗 sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/kcl-politi...

KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference 2026

Join us for the second King's College London Political Theory Graduate Conference.

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KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference, 22 May 2026 Three panels on coercion, responsibility, and transformation Keynote by Bernardo Zacka (MIT): 'Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries: On doing political theory with an ethnographic sensibility' Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/kcl-politi...

KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference 2026

Join us for the second King's College London Political Theory Graduate Conference.

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The second King's College London Political Theory Graduate Conference will be held next month, details below. It was a brilliant event last year, the organising committee are amazing, and I can't recommend it enough. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/kcl-politi...

KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference 2026

Join us for the second King's College London Political Theory Graduate Conference.

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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...

Feminism in the Digital Age: What's next? | King's College London

The KCL Gender Studies Network hosts a roundtable discussion exploring the intersections of technology, gender, and global power dynamics.

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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."

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Loubna El Amine on Israel’s war on Lebanon and the country’s tenuous 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...

2026 KCL Political Theory Conference

We invite submissions from graduate students in political theory and adjacent disciplines, including but not limited to political philosophy, social and critical theory, history of political thought, ...

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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...

Nozick and the invisible hand of racial injustice

Contemporary western democracies like the United States and the United Kingdom bear the imprint of historical racial injustice – slavery, segregation, discrimination, and mistreatment and neglect b...

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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...

PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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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

Fellowships for Early Career Researchers | King's College London

Join a vibrant, dynamic community of postdoctoral and early career researchers

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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...

Proportional Immigration Enforcement | The Journal of Politics: Vol 85, No 3

This article considers how much harm is justified in reaching immigration goals. Political philosophers generally overlook this question, focusing on states’ rights to exclude immigrants in general, r...

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ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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-...

Ground-breaking project examining future of democracy awarded major grant | King's College London

A King’s academic is part of a research team that has been awarded more than €9 million by the European Research Council to deliver a landmark project that will seek to challenge the way we think abou...

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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

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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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....

Competition and causal inference: Economic choice and welfare analysis under potential outcomes - Samuel DeCanio, Colin Jennings, 2025

We apply widely accepted arguments regarding the inferential properties of scientific experiments to analyse markets and consumer decision-making. Market compet...

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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...

Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration - Volume 119 Issue 3

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'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...

Can abundance save the left?

Everyone facing a problem hopes that their problem will go away. Confronting constant tough choices—caused by a faltering healthcare system, an aging population dependent on state pensions, councils t...

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