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Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, King’s College London & Parliamentary Academic Fellow, UK House of Commons
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The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the main association of experts on genocide and mass violence, has just passed a resolution declaring that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

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September 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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I cannot more strongly recommend this post.
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Aug 26
New post just out:

"The financial crisis theory of everything"

Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

(£/free trial)

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The financial crisis theory of everything
Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Really important research from The Policy Institute and the Higher Education Policy Institute:

The UK public hugely underestimate both the economic importance of universities to the economy, and the levels of graduate satisfaction with university.

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Public hugely overestimate graduate regret while underestimating economic value of universities and being wrong on tuition fees – new study
People guess that 40% of graduates wouldn't go to university if they could choose again, when the reality is just 8%
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August 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Delighted that my article ‘The logic of idealization in political theory’, which substantially reformulates the debate over idealization and ideal/non-ideal theory, is now out in the latest American Journal of Political Science. Available open-access!

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The logic of idealization in political theory
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July 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...

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AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods
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June 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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This is from a few weeks ago, but I really recommend this great column from Dr Lise Butler, at City St George’s University of London, on the lessons for the UK Labour Party from Canada.

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Sleeping with the elephant
Lise Butler What Starmer could learn from Canada  My country, Canada, faces an existential threat. Over the course of his new administration’s first month, Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that…
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March 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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3 new jobs in my department at King's College London @Kingspol_econ - 2 in Political Theory, and one in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

It's a great department. Details below!

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

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Lecturer in Political Theory
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March 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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For those who missed my last post - I’m excited to be speaking at the Cascade Institute tomorrow (Thursday) on ‘How Global Ideological Competition Drives Russia’s War in Ukraine’. 1pm Pacific/4pm East Coast/9pm UK/10pm W Europe.

Join me on Zoom! Details below:

cascadeinstitute.org/about/events/
Events - Cascade Institute
The Institute explores how humanity interacts as a complex system and how they must therefore be addressed systemically, not separately.
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January 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Looking forward to speaking at the Cascade Institute in Victoria, Canada, on the 16th January on ‘How Ideological Competition Drives Russia’s War in Ukraine’!

You can join in person or online! Full details below:

cascadeinstitute.org/about/events/
Events - Cascade Institute
The Institute explores how humanity interacts as a complex system and how they must therefore be addressed systemically, not separately.
cascadeinstitute.org
January 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I study mass killing, which includes genocides. @alexhinton.bsky.social @jleadermaynard.bsky.social @uungor.bsky.social @vukusiciva.bsky.social and @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social are on here and should fit as well.
November 27, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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Delighted to announce that my new article, 'The Logic of Idealization in Political Theory' has been published in the American Journal of Political Science!

The article is open access! So anyone can read it for free here:

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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
The role of ideals and idealizations is among the most vigorously debated methodological questions in political theory. Yet, the debate seems at an impasse. This paper argues that this reflects a fun....
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May 29, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Delighted to announce the publication of a new article, that I have co-authored with Nenad Tomasev and Iason Gabriel, on ‘Manifestations of Xenophobia in AI Systems’, out now (free to access) in AI & Society!

Please check it out here:

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Manifestations of xenophobia in AI systems - AI & SOCIETY
Xenophobia is one of the key drivers of marginalisation, discrimination, and conflict, yet many prominent machine learning fairness frameworks fail to comprehensively measure or mitigate the resulting...
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March 21, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Thrilled, and honoured, by this hugely generous review of my book, Ideology and Mass Killing, by the great Professor Alex J Bellamy - one of world's foremost scholars of atrocities and humanitarianism.

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Ideology & Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides & Deadly Atrocities, written by Jonathan Leader Maynard
"Ideology & Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides & Deadly Atrocities, written by Jonathan Leader Maynard" published on 01 Mar 2024 by Brill | Nijhoff.
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March 10, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Two great new job openings at Canada's Cascade Institute (where I sit on the scientific advisory board) in British Columbia: an Energy Systems Transformation Research Lead and Fellow.

Do check them out:

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Research Team Lead, EST - Cascade Institute
RESEARCH TEAM LEAD, ENERGY SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION The Cascade Institute is based at Royal Roads University and acknowledges that our headquarters are located on the traditional lands of the Xwsepsum (...
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February 20, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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A great new job in my department at King's College London! It's an amazing department and terrific political theory group. Check it out!

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Lecturer in Gender and Political Theory
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February 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Ok, I need someone to explain this Tradle bombshell to me…
January 21, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Great new job opportunity to work in the UK Parliament as a committee specialist on home affairs and justice - posting for anyone who might be interested:

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Committee Specialist (Home Affairs and Justice Policy) - Houses of Parliament
Title: Committee Specialist (Home Affairs and Justice Policy). Employer: House of Commons. Salary: £41,340 - £47,975 per annum. Closes: 03/12/2023, 23:55
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November 23, 2023 at 11:18 AM
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New post: to what extent do people in Gaza support Hamas? In which I look at some survey data: https://open.substack.com/pub/alexandreafonso/p/5-to-what-extent-do-gazans-support?r=ercs8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#5 To what extent do Gazans support Hamas?
Survey data shows that Gazans have little trust in the Hamas government, and a majority of them favour a solution to the conflict that recognises the existence of Israel alongside a Palestinian state
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October 30, 2023 at 4:16 PM
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I'm honoured to see this detailed and thoughtful review of my book, 'Ideology and Mass Killing', alongside the late great Lee Ann Fujii's amazing book 'Showtime: The Logic and Power of Violent Display', by the foremost scholar of Torture, Darius Rejali.

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Why People Do Violence? - Human Rights Review
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October 30, 2023 at 6:41 PM
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Do any international lawyers on here have thoughts on this more optimistic report on the possibility of transferring Russian sovereign assets (not just profits made off those assets, but the assets themselves) to Ukraine?

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October 15, 2023 at 10:25 AM
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Important read by William Hague in The Times:

'Hamas has set a trap that Israel must avoid'.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hama...
October 11, 2023 at 10:41 AM
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Such an important read.
October 3, 2023 at 8:05 AM
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The morning pre-teaching read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?
Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.
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October 3, 2023 at 4:09 AM
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Only Brits will know what I'm asking about, but has anyone seen any good long-reads/podcasts on what has happened to HS2 (how the project has gone so over-budget etc.)?

For non-Brits: this is the controversy over 'High Speed 2', a massive proposed, and now half cancelled, UK rail project.
October 2, 2023 at 2:03 PM