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

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

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

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

Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Prizes Nominations are invited for two prizes: The BIAPT Early-Career Prize 2026 Open to political theorists within eight years of award of their ...

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, ...

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...

Adam Smith, David Hume, and the Problem of Moral Relativism - Volume 42 Issue 2

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Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance

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...

DERISK explores how systemic risks are transforming governance in western democratic societies…

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

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

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

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

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...

While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non-Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ...

Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - Volume 55

Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - Volume 55

We are pleased to announce the PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference, taking place on November 26th, 2025, at the Department of Political Economy (DPE), King’s College London (KCL). The conf...

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The association of democracy with elections is relatively recent. In ancient Athens, three things distinguished democracy from other regimes: all citizens having a right to vote directly on laws in th...

Who Needs a Theory of Justice? Judith Shklar and the Politics of Injustice

A core principle of international law, the right of states to consent to the rules that bind them, fails to protect national sovereignty and may actually undermine it, a new academic paper has argued.

Who Needs a Theory of Justice? Judith Shklar and the Politics of Injustice

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On the Genealogy of Trumpism