Academic
M.Phil (1987), D.Phil, Oxford University (1993)
Positions
Yale University, Fellow in Ethics and Political Philosophy
London School of Economics
Oxford University, St Antony's College
Other
Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University
Visiting Professor, Central European University
Faculty Fellow, Murphy Institute for Ethics, Tulane University
Humboldt Special Research Fellow, Free University Berlin
Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University
St Catherine's and Merton Colleges, Oxford University, Lecturer in Political Theory
M.Phil (1987), D.Phil, Oxford University (1993)
Positions
Yale University, Fellow in Ethics and Political Philosophy
London School of Economics
Oxford University, St Antony's College
Other
Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University
Visiting Professor, Central European University
Faculty Fellow, Murphy Institute for Ethics, Tulane University
Humboldt Special Research Fellow, Free University Berlin
Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University
St Catherine's and Merton Colleges, Oxford University, Lecturer in Political Theory
Books (monographs)
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017)
Published in the US as Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World (W.W. Norton, 2017)
Published in Italian as Esser Volpe: Vita di Niccoló Machiavelli (Giunti Editore, 2017)
Published in Dutch as Als een Vos (Athenaeum, 2018)
Translations in Complex Chinese (Taiwan), Simple Chinese (PRC), Hebrew, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish
Machiavelli’s Prince: A New Reading (Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback edition 2015)
Machiavelli’s Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2009; hardback and paperback)
Really Existing Nationalisms (Oxford University Press, 1995; new paperback edition Verso, 2018)
Tamil Translation forthcoming
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017)
Published in the US as Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World (W.W. Norton, 2017)
Published in Italian as Esser Volpe: Vita di Niccoló Machiavelli (Giunti Editore, 2017)
Published in Dutch as Als een Vos (Athenaeum, 2018)
Translations in Complex Chinese (Taiwan), Simple Chinese (PRC), Hebrew, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish
Machiavelli’s Prince: A New Reading (Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback edition 2015)
Machiavelli’s Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2009; hardback and paperback)
Really Existing Nationalisms (Oxford University Press, 1995; new paperback edition Verso, 2018)
Tamil Translation forthcoming
Articles and book chapters
Nationalism
‘The Idea of the Nation’ (co-authored with David Miller) in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, forthcoming 2021
‘Can Nationalism Save Democracy?’ in Nations and Nationalism, vol. 26 (3), July 2020
‘The Varieties of Nationalist Thought’ in The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought, eds. Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
‘Nationalism: Intellectual Origins’, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, ed. John Breuilly (Oxford University Press, 2013)
‘The Nation State’, in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy, 1790-1870, ed. Allen W. Wood (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
‘Japanese national doctrines in international perspective’ in Nationalisms in Japan, ed. Naoko Shimazu (Routledge, 2006)
‘Really existing nationalisms’ in Nations and Nationalism: A Reader, ed. P. Spencer and H. Wollman (Rutgers University Press, 2005)
‘The liberal limits of republican nationality’ in Forms of Justice, ed. Daniel A. Bell and Avner de-Shalit (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
‘Is there a core national doctrine?’ Nations and Nationalism, vol. 7.3. (155-174), April 2001.
‘Marx and Engels on nationalism’ in International Relations: Critical Perspectives, ed. Andrew Linklater, vol. 3 (Routledge, 2000)
‘National myths and political responsibility’ in Society and Economy in Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 20, no. 1, (131-142) 1998.
‘Nationality without nationalism’ in Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 2, no. 2 (189-206) 1997.
‘Nationalism within reason’ in Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 43, no. 1 (28-40) 1997.
‘Marx and Engels on nationalism and national identity: a reappraisal.' Millennium, vol. 17, no. 1, 1988
‘Marx ve Engels’te Milliyetçilik ve Milli Kimlik: Bir Yeniden Degerlendirme.’ In Çev. U Alkan, Mülkiye Dergisi, 38 (1) (Turkish translation of above, 2014)
Democracy and the Ancient Greeks
'Nicias' in Engelsberg Ideas Online (2020)
‘Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens’ in Past and Present: To Learn from History, ed. Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesseérus (Bökforlaget, Stockholm 2020)
'On Civility' in City, Civility, and Capitalism (Bökforlaget, Stockholm 2020)
Knowledge Without Authority (Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2018)
Political Realism
‘Realism and Human Nature: Classical and Modern arguments’ in The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, eds. Miles Hollingworth and Robert Schuett (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
‘Three Causes of Political Corruption’ in Why Do Polities Decline? (Bökforlaget, 2018)
The Rule of Law
'The Daimons' Wisdom' in Lapham's Quarterly, Issue on Law (Spring 2018)
Machiavelli
‘The way to hell: Machiavelli on the causes of corruption in republics’ in Why Do Polities Decline? (Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2018)
‘Natural suspicion and reasonable trust’ in Trust and Happiness in Modern Political Thought, ed. Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos (Brill, 2017)
‘The necessity to be Not-Good: rethinking Machiavelli’s Realism’ in Liberty and Conflict: Machiavelli on Politics and Power, ed. Nadia Urbinati, David Johnston, and Camila Vergara (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
‘Niccolo Machiavelli’s Two Realisms’ in The Return of the Theorists: Dialogues with Foundational Thinkers, ed. Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten, and Hidemi Suganami (Palgrave, 2016)
‘Machiavelli’s Ironies: the Language of Praise and Blame in the Prince.’ In Social Research: An International Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Summer 2014)
‘Questa inconstante dea: Machiavelli’s Amoral Fortuna.’ In SpazioFilosofico, Special Issue on Fortuna, No. 12 (October 2014)
‘Las ironias de Maquiavelo: Estáandares generales y el consejo ironico en El Principe’ in El Principe de Maquiavelo: desafios, legados y significados, ed. Jorge Andrés López Rivera. Sello Editorial Javeriana (2014) (Spanish translation of my inaugural lecture, 2013 symposium on ‘El Principe de Maquiavelo 500 años despues’, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
‘Der Fuürst, Kap. XII-XVI’ in Otfried Hóffe, ed. Machiavelli: Der Füüüüurst (Klassiker-Auslegen-Band, 2012)
Review of Maurizio Viroli, Machiavelli’s God. American Historical Review, October 2011
Nationalism
‘The Idea of the Nation’ (co-authored with David Miller) in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, forthcoming 2021
‘Can Nationalism Save Democracy?’ in Nations and Nationalism, vol. 26 (3), July 2020
‘The Varieties of Nationalist Thought’ in The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought, eds. Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
‘Nationalism: Intellectual Origins’, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, ed. John Breuilly (Oxford University Press, 2013)
‘The Nation State’, in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy, 1790-1870, ed. Allen W. Wood (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
‘Japanese national doctrines in international perspective’ in Nationalisms in Japan, ed. Naoko Shimazu (Routledge, 2006)
‘Really existing nationalisms’ in Nations and Nationalism: A Reader, ed. P. Spencer and H. Wollman (Rutgers University Press, 2005)
‘The liberal limits of republican nationality’ in Forms of Justice, ed. Daniel A. Bell and Avner de-Shalit (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
‘Is there a core national doctrine?’ Nations and Nationalism, vol. 7.3. (155-174), April 2001.
‘Marx and Engels on nationalism’ in International Relations: Critical Perspectives, ed. Andrew Linklater, vol. 3 (Routledge, 2000)
‘National myths and political responsibility’ in Society and Economy in Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 20, no. 1, (131-142) 1998.
‘Nationality without nationalism’ in Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 2, no. 2 (189-206) 1997.
‘Nationalism within reason’ in Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 43, no. 1 (28-40) 1997.
‘Marx and Engels on nationalism and national identity: a reappraisal.' Millennium, vol. 17, no. 1, 1988
‘Marx ve Engels’te Milliyetçilik ve Milli Kimlik: Bir Yeniden Degerlendirme.’ In Çev. U Alkan, Mülkiye Dergisi, 38 (1) (Turkish translation of above, 2014)
Democracy and the Ancient Greeks
'Nicias' in Engelsberg Ideas Online (2020)
‘Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens’ in Past and Present: To Learn from History, ed. Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesseérus (Bökforlaget, Stockholm 2020)
'On Civility' in City, Civility, and Capitalism (Bökforlaget, Stockholm 2020)
Knowledge Without Authority (Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2018)
Political Realism
‘Realism and Human Nature: Classical and Modern arguments’ in The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, eds. Miles Hollingworth and Robert Schuett (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
‘Three Causes of Political Corruption’ in Why Do Polities Decline? (Bökforlaget, 2018)
The Rule of Law
'The Daimons' Wisdom' in Lapham's Quarterly, Issue on Law (Spring 2018)
Machiavelli
‘The way to hell: Machiavelli on the causes of corruption in republics’ in Why Do Polities Decline? (Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2018)
‘Natural suspicion and reasonable trust’ in Trust and Happiness in Modern Political Thought, ed. Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos (Brill, 2017)
‘The necessity to be Not-Good: rethinking Machiavelli’s Realism’ in Liberty and Conflict: Machiavelli on Politics and Power, ed. Nadia Urbinati, David Johnston, and Camila Vergara (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
‘Niccolo Machiavelli’s Two Realisms’ in The Return of the Theorists: Dialogues with Foundational Thinkers, ed. Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten, and Hidemi Suganami (Palgrave, 2016)
‘Machiavelli’s Ironies: the Language of Praise and Blame in the Prince.’ In Social Research: An International Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Summer 2014)
‘Questa inconstante dea: Machiavelli’s Amoral Fortuna.’ In SpazioFilosofico, Special Issue on Fortuna, No. 12 (October 2014)
‘Las ironias de Maquiavelo: Estáandares generales y el consejo ironico en El Principe’ in El Principe de Maquiavelo: desafios, legados y significados, ed. Jorge Andrés López Rivera. Sello Editorial Javeriana (2014) (Spanish translation of my inaugural lecture, 2013 symposium on ‘El Principe de Maquiavelo 500 años despues’, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
‘Der Fuürst, Kap. XII-XVI’ in Otfried Hóffe, ed. Machiavelli: Der Füüüüurst (Klassiker-Auslegen-Band, 2012)
Review of Maurizio Viroli, Machiavelli’s God. American Historical Review, October 2011
Some recent lectures and talks
March 2011: Montreal, Renaissance Studies of America (RSA) Conference: ‘Machiavelli’s ironies’
April 2011: Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (McGill): presentation and discussion of my book, Machiavelli’s Ethics
March 2012: Tübingen University, Philosophy Faculty: ‘One’s own arms and virtú: Il principe chapters 12-14’
March 2012: Washington D.C., RSA Conference: ‘Machiavelli’s Prince and the Greek theme of self-reforming tyrants’
September 2012: Oriel College, Oxford University: ‘Virtú, fortune, and the ironic structure of the Prince’
February 2013: Princeton University, Center for Human Values: ‘Machiavelli’s ironies: the language of praise and blame in the Prince’ (500th Anniversary workshop on Machiavelli and the Prince)
March 2013: Duke University, Kenan Institute for Ethics: ‘Ironic praise and critical judgement in the Prince’
April 2013: Javeriana University, Cali, Colombia: ‘General standards and ironic advice in the Prince’
September 2013: Harvard University, Government Department: ‘Was Machiavelli a Realist?’
November 2013: Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna: ‘Realism and Ethics: Machiavelli on international relations’
December 2013: Columbia University, Italian Academy: ‘The necessity to be not-good: Machiavelli’s realism and foreign relations’
February 2014: University of Texas / Texas A & M: ‘Machiavelli and Plato’
April 2014: University of New Hampshire: Inaugural Lecture for new Program in the Humanities on my book, Machiavelli’s Prince: A New Reading
April 2014: SUNY Stony Brook University, Alfonse d’Amato lecture: ‘Machiavelli’s Ideal Statesman’
September 2014: Central European University, Budapest: ‘Machiavelli on the necessity for good faith’
October 2015: Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona: ‘What’s religious about civil religion? Machiavelli on the laws, morality, and the heavens’
April 2016: Chicago roundtable on Machiavelli and religion
February 2017: Central European Univerity, Budapest. 'Demagoguery and Democracy'
March 2017: How to Academy, London. 'Be a Fox: Machiavelli and Leadership'
April 2017: University of Debrecen, 'Demagogues and Citizens'
May 2017: Central European University, 'Beyond Demagoguery?' CEU President’s Seminar
October 2017: 'How to write a non-academic book if you're an academic'
March 2018: Palazzo Medici-Ricciardi, Florence. 'Three Forms of Democratic Corruption'
March 2018: University of Virginia, Charlottesville. 'Machiavellian advice for leaders (and citizens)'
April 2018: University of Wisconsin, Madison. 'How realistic is political realism?'
April 2018: University of Scranton, PA. 'Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli on Challenges to Democracy'
May 2018: Oxford Italian Society. 'Machiavelli's Handbook for Citizens'
June 2018: Engelsberg Seminar, Sweden. Talk on political knowledge and ignorance
October 2018: University of Delhi, India. Lecture on Machiavelli
October 2018: University of Heidelberg. 'Democratic Crises: Lessons from Athens and Florence.' Keynote Lecture, Conference on Political Crises
October 2018: Cluster for Normative Orders, Goethe University, Frankfurt. 'Did Marx Neglect a Human Need for Identity?' G.A. Cohen on Historical Materialism's 'Blind Spot'
November 2018: London, talk on Machiavelli and the Law
December 2018: Amherst College, MA. Talk on Illiberalism and the Law
June 2019: Engelsberg Seminar, Sweden. ‘Thucydides on history and democracy,’ lecture at conference on ‘The Uses of History’ hosted by by the Ax:son Johnson Foundation.
November 2019: London School of Economics. 'Can Nationalism Save Democracies?' Debate on Nationalism and Liberalism, ASEN.
January 2020: Uppsala University. ‘Does democracy need nationalism?’ Paper for conference on liberal nationalism.
February 2020: Oxford University, All Soul’s College. ‘Ancient Lessons about War and Democracy’, Guest Lecture.
October 2020: Columbia University, NY. ‘Machiavelli,’ online talk for the Contemporary Civilizations programme