Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy
Lecturer in Political Economy
Professor of Political Theory
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy and Philosophy; MAPP Program Director; Research Associate - London School of Economics; Visiting Scholar - University of Pennsylvania
Lecturer in International Ethics
Professor of Political Theory
Lecturer in political theory
Lecturer in International Politics
Reader in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy
Lecturer in Political Economy
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
Reader in Political Theory
Open borders for those left behind
Led by Dr Adam Tebble, under the auspices of King's Centre for the Study of Governance and Society and the John Templeton Foundation.
Political Theory and Social Anthropology: A Dialogue
Ongoing research exchange project between Paul Sagar and Anastasia Piliavsky (King’s India Institute)
Tolerance in Contemporary Islamic Polities: Political Theory Beyond the West
Funding ended in 2016 but some publications are still in process – Humeira Iqtidar
Social Justice in Non-Liberal Polities
King's Together Funding, 2019 – Humeira Iqtidar
The Political Theory Research Group publishes widely across a range of leading international peer reviewed journals. See individual pages for details of specific articles.
Recent books by political theory group members include:
- Dr Humeira Iqtidar received the 2021 mid-career prize from the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought.
- Dr Paul Sagar received the early-career prize from the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (APT), in recognition of his work promoting the discipline through teaching and research
- Adam Tebble, £10,000 from CSGS/John Templeton Foundation for 'More opens borders for those left behind' project
- Jonathan Benson, Faculty of Humanities Award for Distinguished Achievement, University of Manchester 2019
Our current research interests include:
- Culture, ideology, and identity; Islamic political thought; Race and racism; Religion; Feminism and gender
- Political theory and public policy; Political liberalism; Public deliberation
- Critical theory and continental political thought
- Democratic theory and practice; Justice, Equality; Liberty; Environmental political thought
- History of political thought, including Hobbes, Mandeville, Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Tocqueville, and many more; Enlightenment moral, political, and economic theory
- Libertarianism and classical liberalism; Hayek; Social epistemology; Markets and political theory
- International justice; Sovereignty and international law; Ethics of immigration
- Methods in political theory; realist political theory